If you put together a structure like that and leave the sordid details up to the implementer and you supply a mostly confusing example as the set shipped with the OS, and subsequently mess it up even further with your own application installs you own the mess.
An upvote isn't always enough, so I just want to say I support your holistic view of engineering and find the "not a bug, not my problem" approach detrimental to the broader success and acceptance of technology in society.
I'm unable to extract anything specific from your comments. Are you still talking about the registry or about something else? Its cathartic to vent, but the registry is not the source of your frustration.
Okay.. call me small-picture-minded but I much rather prefer - "I press a button M and Feature X doesn't work when I choose option Y" - over "Feature X is terrible at its job"
