So far the only issue seems to be my incessant need to customize.. and any change that I want to make the files in the EFI folder require me to unset the hidden flag and reboot.
I might try renaming the partition by pre-pending a '.' to the name so that it'll b hidden, just not flagged as 'hidden' and it won't show up on my desktop just because I want other mounted volume to show up.
Please let me know if you anticipate any issues with this approach; I'd rather not start over again if I can avoid it :-)
Thanks in advance!
Kali 2016.1 Persistent USB w/ a General User & Sudo.