It is 2024, why does the game still not save your settings.

[Bun_Vivant]

Installed the game on new machine, had to go and dig up my old one to transfer the character and system settings stuff.
How hard would it be to have the game keep track of your bars/gearsets/etc. instead of doing it this clunky and impractical way.

As someone who regularly plays two accounts on two machines (which my spouse does as well), alternating which is on which, I can report there are issues you may not be considering, such as different screen sizes/resolutions, different input devices, different hardware capabilities and so on that could make blindly copying the config from one machine to another a nightmare.

From experience, I can tell you that going back and forth between a 3440x1440 screen on a 45" monitor and a 2560x1440 screen on a 32" monitor can be a pain, and not everyone can solve the problem by just buying a new monitor like we did.

And our primary systems have ROCCAT Tyon mice and Azeron Cyborg keypads, while our secondary systems don't (because the former is hard to find anymore and the latter is not cheap, plus desk space limits), which means we can't use the same keybindings on all our systems.

Plus the GPUs differ: we're using RTX 3070s on our main systems but much less capable GPUs on our secondaries, so grpahics setting have to differ as well.

Running on two systems, you get a good idea of what's implemented in the client as opposed to what's implemented on the server. For example, we've had to learn to be careful after switching which account is on which system to make sure the gear the character is actually wearing (which is server side) corresponds to the gearset the client thinks the character is wearing (gearsets are all client side).