When win32 was dominant they didn't need to document it, people had the motivation to figure it out. Successive waves of Microsoft people then tried to make it

When win32 was dominant they didn't need to document it, people had the motivation to figure it out. Successive waves of Microsoft people then tried to make it easier to use or replace it entirely, which, they never did so with the same quality as the original. Unfortunately some of those misadventures became synonymous with building a windows UI.