Comment 5 for bug 477703

Please be more judicious in your use of the term "autistic."

I'm not so fond of the "silent" GRUB at startup either, but as Colin said, the design team pulls rank on this one.

That only affects the default install, however. What you can do is edit /etc/default/grub, change the settings for GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT (set to e.g. "5"), GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET (set to "false"), and maybe GRUB_TIMEOUT. If you're like me, you might also want to uncomment the "GRUB_TERMINAL=console" line, so that GRUB doesn't go into graphics mode. Make sure you run update-grub(8) afterwards, of course.

I'm closing this bug, because there really isn't much else that can be done here.