Who was it that decided it was a good idea to hide the Grub boot menu by default in Ubuntu server

Who was it that decided it was a good idea to hide the Grub boot menu by default in Ubuntu server edition? This has made it remarkably difficult to explain what my keyboard monkey on the other side of the world should do.

"Press the down arrow or the shift key when the blank screen comes up after the Intel boot agent. You have 1 second. Go."

Ten reboots later I think we have success...