At least there's some "sign of life" from the OS in this case - although I can totally imagine this being a confusing experience for people as well! If it's technically infeasible to replace the OEM logo while avoiding a modeset (flicker), maybe a small spinner or animated logo would do - an animated Fedora logo could look extremely cool there!

They note in the post that this functionality is coming soon:

> 2. Write a new plymouth theme based on the spinner theme which used the vendor logo as background and draws the spinner beneath it. Since this keeps the logo and black background as is and just draws the spinner on top this avoids the current visually jarring transition from logo screen to plymouth, allowing us to set plymouth.splash-delay to 0. This also has the advantage that the spinner will provide visual feedback that something is actually happening as soon as plymouth loads.

This messed me up for a while when I'd see the windows spinner on an Ubuntu redbrownpurple background

That's because you probably launched windows from a grub bootloader. What windows actually does is just leave up whatever was the last thing drawn on the screen, which for single-OS systems is usually the manufacturer logo.

Perfect description of that color, thanks.