It also inherited a ton of bad habit from Windows 8, such as shiny fancy-looking but overly simplistic configuration screens, except the original configuration

It also inherited a ton of bad habit from Windows 8, such as shiny fancy-looking but overly simplistic configuration screens, except the original configuration dialogs are still there underneath. This is indicative of a bad development methodology: devs/teams work on useless small projects (jazz up these dialogs so that grandma can use them) which can easily be executed and completed within a year or so (you know, a review cycle). While leaving all the old mess little changed underneath (because of course the new shit is horribly incomplete and doesn't actually fully replace the old controls). They have a corporate/dev culture which actively discourages long term incremental improvements of core components and focuses instead of trivial window dressing that can be packaged up in a SMART-goals format so that people can tick off their commitments and get their bonuses, raises, and promotions.