[userbinator]

actually try the framework, you might be pleasantly surprised

Enough people have used UWP apps and been repulsed enough by the experience to not want to inflict the same upon the users of apps they themselves write.

But UWP is an excellent choice for probably 70-90% of desktop applications

No. It's a massive failure even for something as simple as the Windows calculator, which is one of the apps that MS rewrote so you can actually compare the Win32 and UWP versions.