I'm quite a pessimist otherwise, but I don't think my comment really reflects that. I just reported that as a human being, I'm tired of, and fed up with fighting a system that disrespects me, belittles me, overrides my decisions.
For the longest time I felt that I have the upper hand. That I could install a software for my every need, limit this, change that, bend the whole system to my will. But the realization grew on me, that me and the system are wanting two very different things. And whatever I do, I won't win. At most, we can be engaged in a cat-and-mouse game, as long as I'm up for fighting for it. If I'm not, then my cause is lost.
With this realization, I felt betrayed by the entity I otherwise liked very much. And this is the feeling I wanted to convey with my previous comment.
I did not take the comment in the same light. I think it is great that people are creating such software. Seems useful for many users.
But looking at the broader context npteljes has a point.
Why fight an insecure tool (let's say Windows is insecure for the sake of the argument, I do not have a strong opinion about it) then patch the security on top. Surely the obvious choice is to stop using the insecure tool.
Sometimes people want a technical answer, when the answer is to do the obvious. I don't think that is pessimism.
The most constructive answer is to stop using/supporting/supplying demand for software that doesn't respect the user. Rather than people trying to remove the same warts over and over, progress could be made on a more permanent solution; namely, identifying gaps in the open source ecosystem where the only current solutions are proprietary.
I think it's a pretty good idea to automate this sort of software and schedule it to run whenever the OS restarts, or at the same time every day (or multiple times, depending on usage patterns).
I don't think it's possible to (easily) figure out when to run something right after the updates change any settings, but it's a good idea to automate away manual work as much as possible!
The person that you're replying to certainly has a point about having to run the tool manually being a hassle. Sadly, at the moment there are also no ways to automate running the tool (that i know of), since it's GUI only, as opposed to offering CLI functionality or silent launch options.
Great credit to the authors of the tool. I used it many times when I was stuck with windows - and I'm grateful that they did all the work to make it.