M76
[H]F Junkie
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Are you using the bigotry of low expectations? But making every option or setting take up 500 pixels on the screen does not make it simple or intuitive. Having to scroll down 5 pages for options that used to be on a single panel is not progress, nor simplicity.A big reason for the current dynamic is that you have two different target audiences. An increasing number of younger people need to be able to adjust things similar to how they do it on their phone or they can't figure it out (either because they are too dumb or because they don't care to even try if it's not spoon fed to them). And you also have people of all ages who are legitimately just not good at using computers who do also benefit from a "simple" settings interface. On the flip side you have people who need or benefit from all of the detailed options, and are smart enough or care enough to actually understand what those options do. Some options have been removed from the legacy control panel over time but there is in-fact still quite a bit of overlap.
That strawman didn't have chance, but I wrote all RELATED settings, the world related is kind of important there. What's left of the control panel is useless and dumb. What overlap remains is just enough to further confuse you trying to find settings that used to be there, but now reside in the settings app, which changes with every version BTW. They should've either left the control panel intact or migrated everything to the settings app.I don't think that it would actually be a good thing to have "all settings in one place". That's an almost impossible task without either making things too complicated for novice/lazy/dumb users or removing extra functionality that is preferred by advanced users. I'm perfectly fine with having the Little-Tykes Settings app for the phone tards while leaving the Control Panel in the background for the rest of us.