>I feel like this is a huge gap with AutoPilot that was completely forgotten about.

A gap; for sure. Is it _huge_ though? On a day-to-day basis how much bare-metal imaging are you forced to do because of hardware failures? The general expectation is that this is a very, very small percentage. If that's not true, I'd love to hear why it's not. So the question is, how much effort do you want to put into a bare-metal imaging solution? You have options ranging from just installing from ISOs, to MDT, all the way to some cloud OSD solutions.