I’ve not noticed any issues with the splash screen and haven’t tested boot times with/without with nothing else getting in the way. Let us know if either of these are a concern.
If you are referring to this: [BUG REPORT] Danish Hardware Keyboard layout not working - #3 by DBMandrake, we don’t need keyboard-configuration, just console-data and the kbd package (for loadkeys) which is in the default OSMC image.