[thesuitonym]

Still sort of insane that you need extra apps to fix an issue that Microsoft figured out decades ago. The GP says it was in Windows Vista, but I'm pretty sure even Windows 98 had it. I know XP did.

How has Apple not addressed this?

[evilduck]

Weirder still is that they did, they have an entire expanding control panel pane with redundant pop out controls for stuff that was previously in the menu bar, they just failed to universally integrate it with the system so that third parties could use it.

[seba_dos1]

98 did not, XP was the first one. So, this was addressed there merely 23 years ago, give them some slack! ;)