I''d also like to point out that while legal dev so far is still fairly basic, it''s only two months old. Like other systems, homebrew libraries are sure to become more advanced.
The PSO method may seem tedious to you, but keep in mind no one using it is planning on making any full games, such as whichever company you works for does. So, considering people will mostly want to make demos and minigames (pong clones, etc) everyone isn''t in quite the disadvantage that you''d be in, had you needed to work on an official game using pso (haha)
oh, and plus the fact that we can''t even use any additional files yet. We dont have a dvdroot to work with so PCM audio, graphics, you name it basically has to be in the dol. for ps2 with the network adapter or usb cable you can use host: rather than cdrom0: as a solution.
