@gemlog My hours are basically whenever I feel like they are; some days I legitimately forget to do any work; most technical decisions are within my remit so I rarely have to implement anyone else's bad ideas.

Alas, as a company that makes software to be run on Windows machines, using Visual Studio is not unreasonable, and all the developers are quite used to it; but when I had to make a GUI program from scratch myself a while back, I instead used Qt Creator, and the other main program we ship that I write and maintain is just a CLI program written in Python, so in neither case do I have to deal with much of Microsoft's crap!