It's even more insidious because these apps ask for the data upfront under the guise of "getting to know you better"
How can your AI girlfriend truly love you back unless you give it your real name, age, photos of your face, mother's maiden name, social security number, and genetic material? /s
I agree.
We're both going to get downvoted but the settings app has a much better UI than control panel full stop. The problem is the years of development that have gone into it only for the settings app to redirect to the control panel anyway for 50% of the things you want to do because they still haven't been bothered to actually integrate everything directly into the app.
If you could actually do everything in the settings app that you could do in the control panel after 3 versions of windows I don't think it would be so universally disliked.
I think all of that could be aided by putting the stick on a small ring, and then putting that ring on your larger key ring. Might help it not stick out as much