> UI consistency simply isn’t something they care about While this is somewhat true (especially from Win8 onwards), one of the reasons you have "old-style" men

> UI consistency simply isn’t something they care about While this is somewhat true (especially from Win8 onwards), one of the reasons you have "old-style" menu as a submenu is completely different: it is to make less calls to ContextMenuHandlers, used exactly for "all the third party items". It was a great addition in Win95. By the time of WinXP it was a source of many problems, but of course it was shitty Windows being shitty and not a 3rd party app problem.