[torstenvl]

All of your UI suggestions are bad UI and shockingly similar to all the BS Windows 10-11 force-feed us.

Hierarchy (organization) is better than search. We all know this because whenever hierarchy is replaced with search, search had to reimplement hierarchy to be usable! E.g., grouping and nesting of pinned Win10+ start menu items.

Control Panel did have groups in Win XP. They suck. I always disable it.

Windows 10 removed a ton of context menus. Windows 11 removed more. They both suck. Stop hiding things from me.

[ary]

You'll notice I didn't recommend search, or actually anything, as a solution to the problems I mentioned. I think these issues need more research and experimentation before we can arrive at better long term solutions. Also I didn't advocate for hiding things. Instead I think we agree with the idea that less things should be hidden, and the majority of the issues I have with Windows (and macOS/iOS) user interface elements is that they don't do a good enough job of surfacing the things I'm trying to find.