As someone born after the release of TP 7, this was a fascinating read!
I wouldn’t necessarily have expected for Microsoft to make development (at least the “intended” way) for early not-just-DOS Windows this unergonomic, but now in hindsight, it’s also not that surprising, really.
Not sure it's fair to say they made then unergonomic in some deliberate or neglectful way. Just that Turbo Pascal was a remarkable program.
From the article:
> If there had been a ‘Turbo Pascal for Linux’ in the early 90s, then we might all be running Linux on our desktops today.