Whilst plug and play is a great concept - it has never really worked well and is best switched off.
Disagree heartily on this.
For the vast majority of people, having to faff about with IRQs and port numbers was a massive headache.
P&P works sufficiently well to be the approach of choice.
Agreed that in the tiny percentage of cases where an intermittent problem is causing frequent re-allocation of resources, it can add a layer of obfuscation.
But fix the underlying problem and P&P works fine.
SD