Well, gwes.exe handles the Graphics, Windowing, and Event System... which is the area receiving all the work right now, so it's not too surprising we're running into 'issues'
But, I think MS has certainly been listening to our "observations"
Here are some changes I noted in the latest 219xx:
* When you open something in settings, and close the thing you opened, the start menu no longer goes away (it drops you back at the settings menu where you were, like the old start menu did)
* There's now an option in the start menu CPR to enable or disable paginated scrolling (meaning you can "flick" all the way down to the bottom in one swipe)
* All drop-down menu options like the "Show" menu in the upper left of file explorer, and the "Sort By" menu in the upper right now have touchable areas about 2x normal size (but the text/graphics have yet to get the same size increase)
I know those top 2 are among the most requested things to change here and on xda