alt Hacker NewsThe idea made sense to me, but the execution was trash.
Settings was slow, it wasn't any easier than control panel, and if you wanted to do anything that mattered you ended up in control panel apps which were completely jarring UI-wise from the rest of the PC.
The issue, and this is a recurring Windows theme, was "replacement without feature parity"
Imho, nothing should be allowed to ship in Windows unless it at least covers 100% of previous functionality.
If there are functional gaps, those should require approval at the CEO level.
The Windows team has incinerated a ridiculous amount of goodwill with 80% replacements that leave 20% of previous functionality (often including important workflows for power users) lost.
The issue isn't that Setting was different: it was that it didn't do as much as Control Panel. And that's a fixable issue! Just build the additional widgets / plug-ins.