Isn't the kernel API banned from usage by userspace applications that aren't kernel32.dll (plus deliberately breaks ABI all the time) ? I can appreciate the str

Isn't the kernel API banned from usage by userspace applications that aren't kernel32.dll (plus deliberately breaks ABI all the time) ? I can appreciate the strengths of the NT kernel, but if nobody is allowed to use it... (I suppose kernel drivers can, but that's still a very narrow range of applications) Also, while IOCP has the advantage of being older w.r.t. availability, I wonder how io_uring competes - I haven't used IOCP myself, but from what I've seen io_uring seems to fill its role quite well and I've seen several people complain about various problems with IOCP (in particular poor documentation)