> Contrast this with Windows, where browsing through system settings is like going back in time from Windows 10/8 to XP to 95 all the way to 3.11, if you click "Advanced" enough times.
Note why we know this. We know this because those legacy dialogs are useful and no one could be bothered to rewrite them with new GUI toolkits. Probably someone would write new dialogs if the old ones were forced to die. Probably the replacement would even be more convenient. Or probably not (on both counts).
The dialogs are extensible by third party drivers and applications. Microsoft has api’d itself into a corner, that’s why they can’t bring many of the dialogs up-to-date.
Note why we know this. We know this because those legacy dialogs are useful and no one could be bothered to rewrite them with new GUI toolkits. Probably someone would write new dialogs if the old ones were forced to die. Probably the replacement would even be more convenient. Or probably not (on both counts).