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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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