No recovery option for bricked board?

[mkschreder]

I see on the schematic that Boot0 pin is connected to ground. This effectively prevents one from invoking the default serial bootloader from rom. This seems rather odd design decision.

[mkschreder]

Ok so not only did I have to cut the connection between boot0 and gnd, but also wire pin 28 (boot1) to gnd in order to start the bootloader. Then another surprise: the chip is read/write protected. Luckly it was only lowest level protection so I could disable it using stm32flash -u and -k options.

[mkschreder]

Why so much inconvenience on a board that is supposed to be open and easy to modify?