I have a deep albeit unfounded suspicion that no developer currently at Microsoft actually knows how the old Windows interfaces like Control Panel are built, which would explain why they haven't changed at all since Windows 7 and they're just slowly but surely tacking on new, different (and worse) interfaces which resort to the same APIs. They're essentially slowly replacing the 20-odd years accumulated work done from Windows 95 onwards, which is why they still haven't entirely replaced the old interfaces and the new ones often link to the old ones so that users can still access most of the functionality.
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