Almost everything has to be done through the registry nowadays. It's a shame that it has to be done that way, but I bet MS is banking on the fact that the majority of their users aren't going to go through all that trouble.
I had to do several things on dad's Win 10 that just really shouldn't be the case. He has been having problems with update deployment since Day 1 and he doesn't run esoteric, niche software at all.
Ironically, my host OSs on the various desktops that I use all look like Win 10. I've always visually liked the aesthetic of
Windows (although I prefer the old 9x classic look the most), I just don't like the direction that they are going on. And in some ways it's a direction that software vendors are going in as well and for production rigs, it's just not good.
Thankfully, I can get away with running Guests using legacy OSs and software and not be adversely affected. I'm doing my best to consciously avoid Win 10.
Setup a NAS, that way it won't matter. Using something like FreeNAS that way you'll have software based RAID instead of hardware based RAID (although we do have both here). That way when ever have to change out OSs, your just dealing with applications and the OS itself.