Maybe the users who want to see a progressbar just want Gentoo for the speed and they don't want to get intimidated with all those messages they do not understand. Then a progressbar is much better: they have an indication of when it will be finished even if the displayed progress is not 100% accurate.I personally started to use gentoo because I wanted to know more of goings-on inside the machine, but still I don't see much of use for seeing way too long compilation & linking commands running through my terminal faster than I can read. And seeing estimates of ending time for whatever process is going on is really valuable when you are adminstrating your computer from remote terminal and the system under update is somehow process critical.
And I do agree with you on gentoo being about choice, of course one has to take in account risk of becoming too bloated, but I wouldn't see that as a problem in this case.
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