As with smoking, vaping can be very irritating to people nearby who don't want to smoke, so it's not simply a matter of letting people do what they want, it's about behaving in a manner that is socially acceptable when living among other people.
The problem is that the settings app has consistently been a dumbed down, feature-sparse version of what was in the control panel for the bits it has replaced. Tweaks that experienced users have relied on for decades are simply missing in the settings app, forcing them to go back to the control panel
If Microsoft actually re-implemented all the knobs and dials in control panel then I wouldn't be so irritated, but we've been shown for the last several years that they only bother migrating the most commonly used settings.
That's because they replaced it with the trump part