What happened to grub2?

[Adam Wolfe]

Why were all the grub entries made to mount / as read-only?
Why do most of these options attempt and fsck (and seem to fail) before 
doing anything else?
Why does it not boot the default selection on reboot after having chosen 
recovery at the previous boot?

I've been able to over-write (albeit perhaps only until the next upgrade 
of grub) the read-only issue by editing /etc/grub.d/10_linux.  But as 
for the other two issues... really annoying.  Has anyone found an easy 
way around this?  Installing grub from source, maybe?  Or is there a 
simple "on/off" switch.