> And it's not unusual to have several menu items with a long common prefix, so typing a prefix wouldn't be efficient Especially not on systems where companies

> And it's not unusual to have several menu items with a long common prefix, so typing a prefix wouldn't be efficient Especially not on systems where companies think your file system and the start menu are advertising space. That gets you multiple entries starting with “Microsoft ”, “Adobe ”, “Google ”, etc. Yes, it may (still) be possible to rename those (for third party applications, you can on MacOS, for example), but I bet most users won’t do that.