I always just found it incredibly hostile to access and use. Hate to think the hours I've lost from my life using Regedit. But that goes for all sysadmin stuff

I always just found it incredibly hostile to access and use. Hate to think the hours I've lost from my life using Regedit. But that goes for all sysadmin stuff in Windows. Give me plain text files I can grep and edit with vim, backup by making copies, diff, version etc. Make it JSON if you want but let me use real tools and not the horror show of Regedit and it's ilk.