This is why, in the good old days, UI folks got all worked up when programmers reimplemented basic controls, because they always did it half-assed and could not

This is why, in the good old days, UI folks got all worked up when programmers reimplemented basic controls, because they always did it half-assed and could not connect into all the other parts of the OS that users can configure, or have connections to accessibility software, etc... I remember some horrors in my lifetime: WinAMP skins, browser skins, people recklessly ignoring all of the wisdom collected on asktog.com... But the horrors became so frequent that we all became numb, and now even Windows ships with more UI disarray than could have been imagined in the early 2000s... The hardest part of becoming a greybeard is realizing what could have been, that we have abandoned.