(06-02-2021, 08:24 AM)venam Wrote: Soon you won't find or know how to get what you're looking for or which settings or configuration is where. That's unless everything starts to rely on that new centralized mechanism.

Even with that... there's the lack of "hackability" issue. On windows, even people with _lot_ of knowledge can't easily mess with regedit: it's full of hashes which represent pointers, hidden values, and the like.
It's also a set of binaries disseminated in various (undocumented, of course) places, and can't be easily versioned.
A system you can't easily version, is also a system you can't easily patch, and thus, moving it toward a stable state will be harder (using tools like cfengine3, ansible, drist, rex, etc).