Possible, and that does sound nice. But in my experience striving for consistency means that before improving something you have to go and change everywhere th

Possible, and that does sound nice. But in my experience striving for consistency means that before improving something you have to go and change everywhere that pattern appears in 400 different code bases going back 20 years (and all of the documentation across however many platforms). As a result nobody ever improves things. As with all things YMMV.