My point was that it’s not EDK2 instead of GRUB at the same layer: EDK2 is the UEFI layer, and GRUB still runs fine on top of it as an EFI binary from your ESP. All the things you listed keep working that way: LUKS, RAID, password protection, even memtest via the efi/ insert mechanism. What you lose is only having GRUB directly in CBFS without an ESP.

What you gain with EDK2: Windows boots at all, TPM 2.0 works (the SeaBIOS issues that got it disabled are gone), and option ROMs for external GPUs.

edk2 isn’t replacing grub, it is the payload, I have for example edk2 and grub. It is a Uefi which executes the Grub Efi or any other bootloader. E.g systemd-boot or UKI. Btw edk2 is great

when i was a beginner, it helped me a lot to just start, i installled linux mint without any knowledge. Doing easy things( system update, installing things, using nano, git, pip) Then i got used to do things more and more in the terminal. I had two laptops, one hacket chromebook with linux and one with windows, my safe space. Now my safe space is arch😅

I was bringin sandals with me and hike-off with them

I once hiked onto a mountain barefoot because of a bet with a friend, it took me 3 1/2 hours untl I have reached the summit.