Seriously. I just experienced the first "flawless" boot of my Alpha in over two years. All devices initialized and came up perfectly, including in particular the network interfaces, the X11 graphical login screen, all configured file systems, and even the hardware clock.
The latter has been an issue for some time, and until today, hadn't survived a reboot without me having to manually reset it from the system clock. Current kernel is 5.3.0, built from the kernel.org source tree with the gcc-9.2 compiler and associated current (unstable release) tool chain. --Bob