It’s very very limited on configurability. It’s not user friendly and you must build all the outbound protection manually.
Not with the outbound… If you iron it to the maximum you can even lost your connection (like any other firewall). But you need to configure it manually.
Well, with bad programmed software you must say. You won’t expect that Microsoft does not fail and have problems. Other good software does not conflict.
I won’t call configurability just bell & whistles… Also HIPS is not bell & whistles…
What Microsoft should do is iron out the operational system itself…