It was a specialty (gaming) mouse. I think your breakdown on why vendor driver software still sucks is entirely correct, but it overall ends up making it a poor

It was a specialty (gaming) mouse. I think your breakdown on why vendor driver software still sucks is entirely correct, but it overall ends up making it a poor experience for the primary use cases I have for an operating system. At the end of the day it's just another reason not to use windows. And of course, the driver software has it's own automatic updates that require restarting every single time even for minor version/bug fix updates. I totally believe you that the vendors could do a much better job if they tried harder, but no one is forcing them to. The one-two punch that routinely frustrates the hell out of me is when the vendor driver software requires an update, and the reboot process in turns fires off the windows update install. Now, instead of sitting down to play a game, I'm waiting fifteen minutes for two different software updates to finish and reboot my computer.