You seem to be responding with pretty thought-through responses, so I thought I'd ask you this: Given some people have mentioned its possible the confusion happened due to a "dark pattern" - i.e. a deceptive UI choice, or one where the concequences of what things do are not labelled in a seemingly deliberately confusing way, what is the thinking behind this at microsoft? Is it something they would consider changing if enough people struggle with it? How do things like this happen - I struggle to imagine that product developers on the windows team use these default apps themselves. Surely there must be internal dissent about such things?

I've been facinated by microsoft in recent years, they are really putting in a jekyll and hyde performance imo. They are consistently great at developer relations in some areas, with things like generous contributions to hackathons, visual studio code, github copilot, visual studio etc. But seem to make decisions in other areas, in my opinion particularly around the OS team, that needlessly antagonize a lot of people.

If I were living in a place where they had offices, working for MS is something I might consider one day, if only to be able to contribute to such important things that so many people use daily but I feel like I bounce back and forth on this opinion when such confusing decisions come out with seeming silence from microsoft's end.