Even more than a bug, it's a flaw in industry _culture_. It's a flaw in Windows culture, where application publishers and device manufacturers are allowed and

Even more than a bug, it's a flaw in industry _culture_. It's a flaw in Windows culture, where application publishers and device manufacturers are allowed and perhaps even encouraged to run amok, especially at install time, and run all manner of bespoke procedures with elevated privileges. And it's a flaw in device manufacturer culture, where first-party device ‘drivers’ are expected to be bundled (sometimes optionally, sometimes by mandate) with entire applications for managing them, usually with flashy wizards and always-on GUIs that live in the system tray. More and more, it seems like manufacturers push that shit so they can track users usage of their devices, as well. This is as much a result of device manufacturers' marketing teams' ruinous desires for customized, unique user interfaces and branding as it is a result of anything else. This kind of shit is really alien on platforms where universal management interfaces are the norm, package installation is expected to be well-behaved and non-interactive, etc. It's par for the course on Windows (and significantly so, but to a lesser extent, on macOS).