Even more of a tangent: that's one of the things that Office got wrong with Assistants versus "Bob's principles". They had both tons of "faceless" dialog boxes

Even more of a tangent: that's one of the things that Office got wrong with Assistants versus "Bob's principles". They had both tons of "faceless" dialog boxes and status indicators and a face for some of them. You never knew if the thing you needed was an Assistant "chat" dialog or an older dialog or some weird mix of the two. Complain all you want about the inconsistencies in Windows 10's settings versus getting dropped back into classic Win32 control panels, that's nothing on the worse inconsistencies of the Office Assistant era.