I don’t understand why this topic is on the mailing list. No one is planning to return back in time to 3 years ago and “restart over”. There's only one person that I know (Nico) who can’t stop thinking about returning back in time. And there are… 3 threads already on the same topic?? I can imagine how confusing this is to the readers of the mailing list :\
No, *we are not returning back in time*. It is November 2022 at the time of writing, and time goes forward. Time always goes forward.
Indeed, Nico is not a maintainer anymore. So despite a lot of talking, lying and trolling, he cannot block anything.
I am not sure how many more threads on the same topic OP plans to produce. But I want to mention, there are some useful things that would be great if Nico could do instead, for example:
#1 Replying to the question in the comment here https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/359#change-1258 #2 Replying to the thread on the mailing list about documenting flashrom https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/flashrom@flashrom.org/thread/KM3ZT... #3 Writing a new unit test! That would be a good long-term investment.