I'm finding it really odd how you are still insisting so vehemently that it's a horrible misfeature, and yet you haven't described what you consider the proper

I'm finding it really odd how you are still insisting so vehemently that it's a horrible misfeature, and yet you haven't described what you consider the proper way to represent immovable parts of the schedule, and have barely even acknowledged the need for such a thing. Please, tone down the ranting and try to explain this stuff in a useful way. > There are ample ways to model constrained tasks in a critical path that do not involve a feature that is, [...] Can you finish that paragraph in an informative manner? This is Microsoft that we're talking about, so I don't doubt that they could put in a feature that is as horribly misguided as you claim; I've encountered a few myself. But you've really just been repeating your original assertion without justifying it, and that's unhelpful. Getting haughty about it is even less helpful.