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> Why can't I expect from a company that they give me the tools I want, if I give them money?

Well you could expect it but you probably wouldn’t like the price they quoted you.

To make the price realistic they have to design something which works reasonably well for millions of people, not perfectly for one person.

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Or not remove the configuration utility, in some cases. No one here asked for telepathy and amazing defaults, but take away my configurability and I get upset.

Think about it like this - every single extra simple boolean configuration option doubles the configuration state space of the program. Add just ten option checkboxes for a feature and you have made the system three-orders of magnitude more complicated. Everyone pays for that complexity.

In reality this added complexity is not always so dramatic, when you have a solid architectural base.

And I believe Windows for example has one. And windows still runs fine for me without cortana for example. But I have to resort to hacks, to make that change. So I do not demand more features here.

I demand just more control, what features I want to use. That was there and is getting removed for other purposes than complexity of developement.

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