Windows is not better at this. Plenty of troubleshooting advice says "Now open the registry editor and..." or "Now open this .ini file and..." or "Now open cmd

Windows is not better at this. Plenty of troubleshooting advice says "Now open the registry editor and..." or "Now open this .ini file and..." or "Now open cmd in admin mode and..." The ease of the GUI ends when a serious system-level issue arises. This has never not been the case, it's just a matter of how much the documentation expects you to know what's going on, and how much that impacts the first-run experience. If the first-run is good enough, "reinstall" becomes the go-to fix.