Dignity

Really?? It's because of installer?? 

I'm tired of it. It has happened 2 times. I'll just use the zip file just to be safe ==

It's not because of the installer itself, more that people tend to install it in a location MI can't read properly, such as their OneDrive or (depending on the user's folder permissions) their "Program Files" folders.

It's why I always use the .zip archive instead. Extracted it to a USB drive and I haven't had a single problem with it whatsoever, and since it's on a USB drive I can take it (along with all of my projects) to other PCs too without needing to re-install it every time.

The only real downside I can think of is that when MI updates, you have to manually transfer the project files etc. to the new version when updating MI since each version is a separate extracted folder instead of overwriting itself as the installer would do. However, updates to MI are infrequent enough for that to not be much of a problem.

Not sure why the installer is "recommended" when I feel that the .zip archive has more benefits imo

That explains a lot, welp.

I have no problems now since I'm using the zip one

but yeah, it's not like MI update every week.