Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Richard Stallman]

    PPs: The splash screen doesn't show up, when Emacs is started
         with the '-f' option and a non-existing name.
         Eg: emacs <file> -f grhrjr.
         Is this supposed to be a workaround of the "splash screen
         annoyance"? ;-)

No.  However, I don't think there are many beginners who
always use -f when they start Emacs.  So there is no need
to show the splash screen in such cases.