Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.

I'm sitting here, forced to use a Windows desktop (and I'm remembering all over how terribly UGLY Windows is) while I wait for migration to complete on my new M3 MacBook Air, and I thought I would reverse the scrolling direction on the mouse to be more like what I'm used to.
Now, honestly, I'm quite adaptable as I work with lots of different systems, and have to simply roll with whatever my client at any moment uses, but...
...I assumed this would be an obvious control to have somewhere in the broken mess that is Settings and Control Panel mouse settings.
I opened Settings...
...checked the various things you change about the mouse there...
...and... ...nothing. Nothing useful to this case anyway.
Then I remembered that Microsoft's settings for the mouse are idiotically broken across two different interfaces, so I checked Control Panel...
...and still nothing.
So I check online and would you look at that:
The only solution to changing the scrolling direction of the mouse in Windows is...
...TO CHANGE THE REGISTRY!