[dcmatt]

Short sweet and to the point. Why isn't this a button in the bios, naturally hidden behind a few levels of menus? "Defrag your NVRAM" Other than power failures what would other failure modes be? I guess if the NVRAM has bad cells? Guess it's easier to just reset the whole BIOS whenever there's a problem?

[muppetman]

So refreshing to read. Most people these days would make a 10+ minute video to promote this.

[gavinsyancey]

If something crashes in between the "wipe" and "restore" steps, or something goes wrong with the restore, your computer is now a brick.

[snvzz]

Only if there's no way (like a microswitch on the motherboard) to wipe and start from scratch.