Dummy plugs are an ingenious solution, but the fact that we still depend on them is baffling. Does Apple seriously not recognize the need for these uses cases?
Especially with the wholly Apple-made M series of chips, they control the entire video stack down to the transistor level.
Dummy plugs should be syscalls, not physical things.
I agree with you, it is funny that we need dummies and workarounds (being hardware or software).