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I didn't say as such. To expand on what I did say: once a person reaches a certain level of cock-suredness without the applicable knowledge and experience - they may decide they can do other things in their Windows Registry because "it's not difficult" and fuck things up by trying other suggestions they find on the internet (or their own tinkering).First of, you cannot brick a Windows installation by changing values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE branch.
Or, the TL;DR version that was in my original post "when people get to the Dunning–Kruger level of knowledge, they are at risk of bricking their computer"
I guess I wasn't clear. People should not fuck around in their Registry simply on the advice of others; it opens a Pandora's Box - hence the reason for the warning from Microsoft (and others).
A developer and their coder should know more than someone who takes a cursory glance at the player preferences saved in a Windows Registry about whether or not simply just changing the HKEY value(s) would work - otherwise they could have avoided the grief they got for weeks in Patreon and their Discord after the release of v0.85.1 for not providing a preloaded start point (particularly after that release being delayed for a few months). However, Uberpie has had knowledge issues in the past - but why take the chance?