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And even that got worse - now there's no driver name, exception address or stop codes, so you can't even web search for anything.

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All of this is logged just the same in event logs. It's just not displayed right on the blue screen message.

If the system BSODs, you have no way of getting to the event log without restarting and successfully booting into the OS again.

That is a strictly worse system than displaying BSOD information right away, which lets you diagnose it immediately, it's a downgrade, which is what this entire thread is about.

If the system BSODs you really want to get the memory dump and look at that. The driver faulted immediately isn't always the cause. So this also helps with not faulting something that might not actually be the cause.

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