I'm in your camp on all 3 points

That is some Tim the tool man Taylor stuff!

I wanted to shit on it but I'm actually quite impressed...

I remember reading some old technical manuals for windows 95 way back in the day. Taught me heaps about PnP, bus arbiters and so on.

To be fair, I probably didn't use that knowledge all that much as PnP and ACPI actually worked really well (I was fortunate enough to only have to deal with DOS as far as himem and whatnot...)

The old GUI style guidelines were fantastic back in the day too - completely unlike the anything-goes approach to modern software development (very different pros and cons, basically), especially in windows-land.

Am male

Well, they are owned by Microsoft after all... Ramming AI into everything is all they've done in the last year or two (see edge, office etc).

Awful to actually read, though. Using T as a delimiter is mental... At least the hyphen provides some white space