By the way, regarding Windows progressbars - even if a particular implementation is garbage, like for example passing to 50% instantly, then sitting there for a

By the way, regarding Windows progressbars - even if a particular implementation is garbage, like for example passing to 50% instantly, then sitting there for a minute, then passing again to 75% and staying there and son on, they are still useful if your are using the same tool or operation repeatedly. My VPN progress indicator is junk, but I can roughly guess where is the problem based on where it got stuck now, simply because I've already saw multiple failure modes of it. Or if I'm installing some CPP distributives repeatedly, I can guess how long remains. If an operation is silent and hogging my prompt without any indication what is going on, is stuck, is the speed too slow etc. it is simply frustrating.