Oh sorry for posting twice in a row but I plainly forgot about this:
No matter how short Ubuntu's total boot time is supposed to be, for dual-boot systems (which is a non-negligible part of Ubuntu's user-base I think) a nice graphical boot screen will always be a want-to-have feature, and a text-only boot menu will continue to scare especially people new to Linux away.
Oh sorry for posting twice in a row but I plainly forgot about this:
No matter how short Ubuntu's total boot time is supposed to be, for dual-boot systems (which is a non-negligible part of Ubuntu's user-base I think) a nice graphical boot screen will always be a want-to-have feature, and a text-only boot menu will continue to scare especially people new to Linux away.