The person may have thought that \Windows\System32 was the moral equivalent of /etc , and expected to be able to do with it what people do to /etc with tools li

The person may have thought that \Windows\System32 was the moral equivalent of /etc , and expected to be able to do with it what people do to /etc with tools like etckeeper. And, of course, ZFS boot environments are the same sort of idea to an extent.