Yep, when trying to learn Windows programming in 2020, you can literally see the geological layers of APIs accumulated over time... It does not make things easy

Yep, when trying to learn Windows programming in 2020, you can literally see the geological layers of APIs accumulated over time... It does not make things easy. Not to mention that development on Windows team in MS must be a nightmare... I wonder if it would be a good idea for them to remove a lot of the old APIs and instead provide a seamless virtualization mechanism for running the old binaries.