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Whereas I agree that it's not guaranteed to work, I have set up more then a dozen systems this way and have never had it be an issue.
Honestly I have no clue how many EFI implementations actually fail there. Maybe it's indeed a minor fraction. But I have personally seen two different ones (out of about a dozen -mostly laptops a few years old- systems where I tried it) and that's enough to consider it a problem. (PS: Probably not conicidently one of those also had a broken SecureBoot implementation that rejected all key changes and only worked with the pre-installed MS ones. Maybe I'm simply good at finding the trashy ones.)