A lot of people - myself included, at times - deride "not invented here", and snark that "some people can't understand systems they haven't built themselves, but...

Look at this: https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

Just... look at it. Look at the contortions involved. Hours of effort, by somebody deep enough in the guts of this specific stack to know Regedit and the utilman/cmd trick, just so they could log into a machine with a full drive.

How do you trust systems, or ecosystems, like this? How?