In my case, it was just too many technology changes from what I was used to, and simply wasn't familiar enough with. It doesn't help that every distro seems to do everything slightly differently, rather than just agreeing on a standard. The egotistical NIH may be the most frustrating thing about distro builders.

EFI and dracut are both novel to me; efi I'm starting to become more comfortable with, but dracut is new and I'm not entirely sure how it works and where it puts all of its config stuff. It's still better than systemd-boot, which was mostly a catastrophe for me; it worked fine until you wanted to draw outside of the lines a little and then you discover a mountain of spaghetti. I probably should have just stayed with grub, but I wanted snapshot booting, and grub is beginning to struggle with some of these new modalities.

Anyway, I don't want to have to rely on a custom specialized distro, and I figured out my problem in a couple of days; I only have to screw it up two or three more times and then I'll be comfortable with it :-)