My pet peeve about UI menus is how in Windows it has to start with "File".
Want to exit? File -> Exit. Oh, logical.
Why can't they be sane and called it "Program"? Want to change preferences? Program -> Preferences instead of going "if you want to change the preferences, you will be wanting to 'edit the preferences', so it's under Edit. Where Cut, Copy, Paste belong. Logical, no?"
Want to exit? Program -> Exit instead of File -> Exit.
Both of these oddities were addressed over 25 years ago when Mac OS X 10.0.0 "Cheetah" was released.
Many of the innovations of Mac OS X have been lost in later macOS, but this one stuck. Instead of saying literally "Program" it is the bolded name of the application. This serves the dual purpose of also identifying which program's window is active. Inside the application menu, you'll find both Preferences (now Settings) and Quit.
I'm trying to figure out if you are a Mac user taking a swipe at Windows or if you are genuinely unaware that more or less exactly what you describe has been implemented in a shipping product for over 25 years.
For my own programs I also do it this way exactly, because I find that pretty dumb. Preference also gets put under Edit or Options or Somewhere else, which is really annoying. And then you get different settings, that are called differently and are in different places, great.
Want to exit? File -> Exit. Oh, logical.
Why can't they be sane and called it "Program"? Want to change preferences? Program -> Preferences instead of going "if you want to change the preferences, you will be wanting to 'edit the preferences', so it's under Edit. Where Cut, Copy, Paste belong. Logical, no?"
Want to exit? Program -> Exit instead of File -> Exit.
Rant over.