I'm pretty sure I heard Chen say on a podcast that he has a significant backlog of posts that he puts up when he feels like it.
Right... but my point was that even distinguished engineers at MS (lvl 70+) go "ticket diving" from time to time. It was somewhat contentious because juniors complained that all the "fun" tickets were taken by seniors.
I don't think this has anything to do with what you responded to?
There's probably a dozen posts at least for getting applications to find their dependencies because of one behavior or another. COM servers, .Net. Trying to get running apps to use an updated PATH or other environment variable.