That’s a very rosy outlook that doesn’t match with the few Windows devs I’ve spoken to. It’s better now - because they moved to abstracting a lot of that stuff

That’s a very rosy outlook that doesn’t match with the few Windows devs I’ve spoken to. It’s better now - because they moved to abstracting a lot of that stuff as you said - but the number of man hours spent on it and the knock on effects of the overall system design is non-trivial. Plus, if they’d not had that policy they could have been where they are now in the early 2000s Kind of like OSX was.