“As someone who codes bruteforcing something is usually a terrible idea as you’re likely to cause massive problems if it interacts badly with pre-existing code, which is why you get bugs which can be minimal, such as shonky animations, or bad, such as ctd or major memory leaks.”

And the only reason for the catch-up is more to do with the speed of the computers they’ve been fitting in cars. The algorithms for EFI have always been efficient, but the calculation required to get the end result was slow as hell on some of the weak processors cars used for the past 2 decades or so.