Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[Richard Stallman]

    Really what GNUS displays is the splash screen - an image that appears
    while a program is loading.  Emacs doesn't display the splash screen while
    it is loading.  It only displays the startup page.  I'm not sure whether
    it's good to display an image while Emacs is loading.

I am not necessarily against that change.
But it wouldn't really address the issue, as I pointed out before.