They are not just written to the registry but stored in a .pol file, and not all policies are easily managed via the registry. There are hundreds of policies th

They are not just written to the registry but stored in a .pol file, and not all policies are easily managed via the registry. There are hundreds of policies that impact security and privacy. With policies you can easily print a report of what is changed with descriptions, and see deprecated policies or misconfigured ones. I'd recommend anyone to try it out and see the difference for themselves as to why it is much easier to manage these using local group policies vs a bunch of registry entries.