"Windows really needs to ditch CRLF and just use LF, and switch from backslashes to forward slashes."

Hahahahaha. That's hillarious.

Oh god, you're serious?

Do you have any idea how much of Windows, and user software would break? Any idea at all?

You really want MS, who has built backwards compatibility as a core feature of Windows, to break countless thousands of pieces of software that run on it?

I'm sure there's some idealized fantasy in which that change gets wrapped in a neat little abstraction that prevents anything from breaking. I promise you, there is no way of encapsulating or abstracting that change that works for everyone.

If I could wave a magic wand and make it so without breaking it, I would. But it's a fantasy.