No, they're good. Otherwise new people wouldn't be learning and using them.

You can tell it not to reorder them if you want but it's not the default.

It was already there in the original Mac, and is probably older than that.

VGA was still fundamentally planar, just like EGA. It was just mode 13h that presented a chunky API. IIRC the other modes were all planar.

How so? What platforms were excluded by the use of Rust?