The UI and UX is bad and it indeed doesn't have anything to do with the MSI.
The "undercovers" are appaling, this time all because of MSI. As a consequence, there's no way you can cleanly uninstall Microsoft SQL Server from the system.
I'm kinda interested in which pieces are MSI problems. There's a lot of strangeness in msi it generally it tends to work out pretty well unless you're doing weird stuff.
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Like I said, there are two sides of "badness".
The UI and UX is bad and it indeed doesn't have anything to do with the MSI.
The "undercovers" are appaling, this time all because of MSI. As a consequence, there's no way you can cleanly uninstall Microsoft SQL Server from the system.
I'm kinda interested in which pieces are MSI problems. There's a lot of strangeness in msi it generally it tends to work out pretty well unless you're doing weird stuff.
I'm not saying you're wrong - just interested!