There’s a Raymond Chen article (or maybe it’s in his book) about people that complain “why doesn’t windows just let me do…”, and he then goes on to give several

There’s a Raymond Chen article (or maybe it’s in his book) about people that complain “why doesn’t windows just let me do…”, and he then goes on to give several examples and show what some of the downsides are if you allowed it. This article looks similar, but I’m not sure it is[0]. The name calling and lack of actual examples shows that you probably haven’t even thought about potential downsides. I haven’t either, but it’s because I don’t really care about this particular issue. I just care enough to point out that the “mentally-challenged foot soldiers” at Microsoft may have actually run into some exploits or malicious behavior because they did “allow useful things” at one point. [0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35413 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35...