UI and logic are probably not as decoupled as we’d like to think.

So decouple them. Microsoft has annual revenue of $143 billion. Their flagship product should not be a neglected mess.

Thrre are literally people with scripts that click around the UI every hour to achieve something in a factory. The motto of windows is write once, run forever. I think there is a certain beauty to that

Perhaps Microsoft doesn't own all the relevant code? Historically, there are too many win32 API users "clever" enough to exploit the coupling between UI, business logic and old assumptions that don't work anymore in modern platforms.

I don't think it's actually about backwards compatibility, because the logical solution to that would be to provide a unified dialogue with all necessary settings, and keep the old ones for BC. Instead, they've just moved some of the features from the old dialogues into new interfaces, and left others (many of which are vital), so the entire thing is fragmented. It's completely incompetent.

I don't think it'd right to consider it their flagship product anymore. At least not if we look at what makes them money.