Comment by faho

What replacement do you propose, then?

Especially what replacement do you propose that works with the kind of typical hardware that non-specialty linux distros like Fedora want to support?

Intel systems make up a large chunk of the hardware Fedora is used on, and as far as I can tell they're all-in on EFI.

So Fedora has to use EFI to be able to boot on Intel systems.