And yet the registry is used by billions of people, everyday, without issue. So the technical problems must be minor in practice, right? This is all very academic.
Very dismissive take. How many billions of dollars in man hours have registry errors created with the only solution often being to reinstall windows.
But how can we know if the part that matters is real or not? How many billions of dollars due to registry-specific errors that wouldn't have happened if the app simply used a text file? That's a quantity we can't so easily come up with.