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It might not be the best example but in my experience Microsoft seemingly tries with Windows the approach of (almost) everything being an API. It might be the Windows API specifically or that I'm mainly driving Linux outside of work, but I often found the approach of (almost) everything being an API annoying.

The presence of PowerShell softened my annoyance somewhat, but it never the less often feels unnecessary over-complex and overtly limiting. Tasks I can do in a few seconds on Linux often require reading long convoluted documentations and writing quite long PowerShell scripts or even full blown programs on Windows.

My experience is that the more basic and simple the task at hand the more annoying having to search thru pages upon pages of documentation and writing scripts became. But the more complex a task became the more I was happy not having to always deal with (and error handle) parsing an integer out of a string or splitting a string by a certain character.