As an old geezer, and not necessarily a great fan of everything microsoft does/burns/kills, I witness with sadness how the standards their roman empire helped b

As an old geezer, and not necessarily a great fan of everything microsoft does/burns/kills, I witness with sadness how the standards their roman empire helped build and enforce in the 90's, are deteriorating the last 20 years, first on the web outside ms, and since win8, inside their own desktop OS as well. I dread whenever the windows(?) team/juggernaut updates any of the built-in microsoft system tools (what you might call "options" or "settings" in what is passing for being able to speak and express yourself in these youtube-tiktok-crayon days.) When I need to get anything done/fixed/working on windows, I first type "control panel", to get the age-old settings UI that was unbroken in win7. From there, it is still possible (on win10 - I have avoided win11 so far) to configure most things in a sane way. Whenever I land on one of the newer tools, they present a mix of - "you can't/shouldn't view/see that" - "you should not be able to change that". - "some settings have been hidden/are managed by your organisation" When I hit the newer screens, I cannot see my IP address, I cannot see my DNS providers, I cannot change my DNS providers, I cannot enable/disable my networks. Also, to get back on track: Search/incremental keyboard handling/sorting on lists of stuff is horrendously "I eat crayons, and my product manager eats crayons!" bad. Some of microsoft's own system list screens no longer allows you to easily navigate or search your lists. So you are presented with rubbish like having to page through () hundreds of items, presented 3 or 5 elements at a time (really, on a monitor with a resolution exceeding HD??) A pet rant, truncating list text fields to arbitrary "let's just show the first 16 characters, and then ...", still on the super-HD screen.. sigh. On some of them, no variant of incremental keyboard search works, so with the destroyed scrollbars, you are left with manually moving through them. () assuming the "scroll" interface even allows paging or using the cursor keys.. The modern scrollbar is the crucified victim of what modern crayon-eating humans have lost: - the size of the scrollbar thumb used to indicate the size of the list and the page size, so you could feel if you were scrolling a list of 20.000 or 300 items. - clicking beside the scrollbar thumb used to jump one page at a time, possibly with one single item overlap, so you could "tell" that you had jumped an exact page. - scrollbars used to have little arrows to let you jump 1 item/row at a time. - scrollbars used to be VISIBLE, so you could orientate yourself in the document ("I see, I am near the bottom of the document/list"). - nowadays, instead, you have to play a mix of "hide the mouse" and "gee, I wonder if you can spot WHICH rectangles in this window have extra available scrollbars, IF YOU HOVER IN THE RIGHT PLACE?"