The Control Panel in "small icons" or "large icons" viewing mode defaults to organizing the contents into columns. That's OK, that's pretty easy to read through.

The contents are also in alphabetical order. That's good, too, it's something the user is likely to expect.

Within the columns, the contents are not organized alphabetically! Instead the alphabetical ordering completely ignores the very clear column structure. Who does this?!

If you’re interested, look up “God Mode” it’s a shortcut that can be created which gives you access to a complete control panel which covers everything.

It seems that God isn't omnipotent. God mode still doesn't allow me to tell my machine that I want to open .jpeg files with the Adobe Photoshop installed on my machine (like I can with .jpg) and not Photoshop Elements available through the Microsoft store). There is no option to search my file system for an arbitrary .exe.

Thats a hack done not by Microsoft but probably a frustrated user who needed all subststems under a god damn umbrella.

I hate Microsoft Windows with a passion but I have to stick to it because of work reasons

You name a folder with a specific GUID and then the control panels show up inside it. It's by Microsoft.