Nothing, things like this have existed for a while:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON

Hmm:

> Development of Kmscon stopped in March 2015. There was a successor project called systemd-consoled, but this project was also later dropped in July 2015.

That doesn't sound very promising. Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal?

>Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal?

Probably because nobody wants to put opentype font rendering and input method support and various other things from a window system into the kernel? This stuff all has to be in userspace so you're better off just running a minimal X or Wayland server at that point.

Wider color support hardly requires having complex font rendering features.

Because noone is paid to do it.

That's obviously not the reason, there is a lot of good stuff done by volunteers, it's niche and not enough ppl care about it.

OpenSUSE liveCD from circa 2010 had a full size art background behind the console. Their art was green vertical stripes logo on bottom corner. So, only your distro willingness to configure it is the factor here.

So how exactly do you configure it?

There needs to be someone who wants it. What's the popular use case for it?

Less annoying colors when dealing with semi-stable system where you need to jump into tty :)