Gotcha, not discounting your experiences either. Every desktop engineer I've met (10's or 100's of thousands of workstations) were well aware of this long-stand

Gotcha, not discounting your experiences either. Every desktop engineer I've met (10's or 100's of thousands of workstations) were well aware of this long-standing, dark pattern (esp. after a med-large upgrades), and gnashed their teeth whenever it was discussed because of the extra work/complications it caused. Hopefully those bad times aren't coming back. I'm not hopeful though. For example, Microsoft's tactics preventing Firefox from changing the default browser reminds me a lot of the nasty, underhanded Microsoft from way back in the day. https://www.ghacks.net/2021/12/21/a-recent-windows-update-prevents-mozillas-workaround-to-set-firefox-as-the-default-browser/ https://www.ghacks.net/2021/12/21/a-recent-windows-update-pr...