[BLKNSLVR]

The dumbification of Control Panel to Settings was one of the factors for me.

I'm not sure if Control Panel is still available, hidden away somewhere, but I've since moved on to pastures that only seen to get greener when compared with the Microsoft Windows paddock. They're somehow finding new shades of brown on a monthly basis.

[larrik]

The idea made sense to me, but the execution was trash.

Settings was slow, it wasn't any easier than control panel, and if you wanted to do anything that mattered you ended up in control panel apps which were completely jarring UI-wise from the rest of the PC.

[ethbr1]

The issue, and this is a recurring Windows theme, was "replacement without feature parity"

Imho, nothing should be allowed to ship in Windows unless it at least covers 100% of previous functionality.

If there are functional gaps, those should require approval at the CEO level.

The Windows team has incinerated a ridiculous amount of goodwill with 80% replacements that leave 20% of previous functionality (often including important workflows for power users) lost.

The issue isn't that Setting was different: it was that it didn't do as much as Control Panel. And that's a fixable issue! Just build the additional widgets / plug-ins.

[mancerayder]

It's the movement, a vast Zeitgeist of evil, away from categorizing and organization, and towards Search.

I hate it. I was looking at how to fix the dark screen that resulted from turning on HDR in Windows 11, which some games need at the OS level for some reason, and Search was never giving me the Exact Keyword you need.

Search is always a guessing game, and you end up Googling the answer, it's so incredibly inefficient.

[mancerayder]

I mean specifically making a poorly organized Settings and just adding a text search box at the top to avoid having to organize it easily.