Something similar is how remapping the Capslock key in Windows to another one has to be done via registry edit instead of a Control Panel setting. Given the renewed drive from Microsoft to become the developer’s OS of choice over the last five to ten years, choosing to not offer a more a accessible solution than a registry edit seems contrary to that drive for me.
Older Sun keyboards used to have control in that location labelled by default. I remember buying a happy hacker keyboard back in the early 2000's that also had that as the default configuration, with a dip switch to flip it.
After using a Chromebook for a while I discovered how much I love having my Caps Lock key remapped to launching the desktop search tool, and now I do it on all my computers. E.g. Milou for KDE, I think the MacOS one is called Spotlight.
Windows Input API is multi-leveled and toplevel one sends key combos and characters only. Because keyboard drivers are system-level (although configurable per-user), you can only remap via system reconfiguration, which makes sense.
Microsoft is capable of creating an additional tab in Control Panel to do exactly this: if it requires a system restart or a user logout, then it is fine even if not ideal.
