The long migration from control panel to settings is one of the big tells to me that MS doesn't have the windows UI anywhere near a top priority. They have a l

The long migration from control panel to settings is one of the big tells to me that MS doesn't have the windows UI anywhere near a top priority. They have a large amount of potential resources to throw at any problem they like, they could have done a v1.0 for win8 that provided a complete set of equivalents in the new style when they judged the OS was ready to release. Then iterate from that v1.0 in later releases as they have with other aspects of the OS, if anything MS seem to keep parts more fluid than long term stable now and aren't afraid to make major changes in service packs, win10 reaching EOL is quite different to the initial release and similar for win11. I can appreciate the UI being 'uneven' in a project with loose coordination as you find in a lot of linux distros, but for windows it could be better than it is like an orchestra playing together