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Agree. Did you have a specific app in mind here? Just curious.

It's a prolific issue, but Windows gets dishonorable mention for making things take twelve clicks that used to take three.

I doubt that's because Windows wants you to use it more. It's the freaking OS! I think it has more to do with UWP and the Settings app itself. On the (slight) plus side, they have improved their search so much over Windows 7.

I'm convinced that Windows developers have perverse incentives tied to optimizing engagement or telemetry metrics that happen to be highly correlated with irritating power-users.

I'm not sure if it's intentional or incompetence but here's an example from Firefox: Count the number of actions it takes to delete specific cookies (say all matching "google", which I do every time I log into YouTube so it won't log me into Search etc.)

Firefox's UI is just appalling in a number of ways.

Ever since the new preferences dialog was introduced in Firefox, the UX has been quite slow. What was previously achievable through a few keystrokes now requires several.

For your use case, you could use the Cookie Auto Delete extension and configure it appropriately. Combined with Multi Account Containers and Temporary Containers, your life will be a lot easier.

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