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by TazeTSchnitzel 1384 days ago
> The team prioritized getting the application fully native before the installer since you spend a lot more time running the app than the installer.

Microsoft's been here before. A lot of 32-bit applications for Windows 9x used 16-bit installers! It was so common that I think 64-bit Windows actually had a hack to swap out the executable part of common old installers so those 32-bit apps would still install.