The idea sounds great, but it is impossible to implement. If you build your own desktop, you do have the luxury of selecting a specific video card (and other things). Your proposal falls apart, when a user tries to get a laptop. There is no real choice of which video adapter (and other things) that you will get. It is also a little unreasonable to have to add a video card to a motherboard, that already has a video adapter built in, and it seems that places to plug such a thing into the board, are also, slowly, going away, and the ones that are available, may be required for other things. Then, there is the problem, that video adapter XYZ, model 1, is available today, and is designated as being the adapter of choice, but tomorrow, that adapter is obsolete, and no longer available, because model 2 has replaced it, with different specs. Then, you run into the problem that model 1 is only available in North America, and not Europe, or Asia. The logistics of actually accomplishing the goal, makes it impossible to achieve. My greatest concern, at the moment, is not that we don't have 2D acceleration, but that it seems that the chip manufacturers are probably not maintaining the VESA compatibility, which will make even Panorama unusable. The bottom line, at the moment, is that there aren't enough resources to go around, to accomplish what needs to be done. Some sacrifices are needed, to keep the whole thing going, until somebody finds a way to do what is needed.