I also honestly doesn't mind this relic of the "old days", and other issues like it brought up in the article. The Registry is still very frequently accessed by

I also honestly doesn't mind this relic of the "old days", and other issues like it brought up in the article. The Registry is still very frequently accessed by Windows, often several times per second. I don't mind that the code to support that is making a ton of assumptions about the details that should never change anyway as it's hidden behind the Registry API. For all I care, keep that code simple and as performant as possible.