SHBrowseForFolder(A|W) can be called and forgot about, you actually have to care to create the right kind of IFileDialog (with FOS_PICKFOLDERS, let's not forget our point) object.
So I guess it's just ignorance to care or time constraints.
Was introduced with Windows 95 (and it's NT counterpart, Windows NT 4), so they were probably experimenting with convivence functions for developers. Of course, it's lead to it being a burden over time, that's just nearly-30 year old APIs for you.
SHBrowseForFolder just reminds us that worse exists
pretty sure this exact selector is the reason my files aren't organized, because I'm not taking three eons to go somewhere specific, nor am I saving it there then organizing it after it's already where I saved it.
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So I guess it's just ignorance to care or time constraints.
SHBrowseForFolder just reminds us that worse exists
https://windhawk.net/mods/modernize-folder-picker-dialog
if you don't know what windhawk is, it's this system tweak tool that's like ridiculously light (uses 2mb of ram for me)