Seriously, the WiFi manager sucks

Is anyone else with me on this? I just find it an unnecessarily frustrating and impotent program and entirely inadequate to manage WiFi effectively. Of course, Microsoft never includes full instructions in its help files, so it's left for the user to stumble around with no particular idea of what's happening and why. Trying to do things which should be the most basic function of a wireless manager is nearly impossible sometimes, due to what I can only see as stupid design.

For instance - when I turn on WiFi and go to settings, I see that it's simply going through every connection on the list to see if it can connect, regardless of whether or not those connections are actually there or not. So it'll spend annoying minutes attempting to connect to signals that I was using earlier, across town. It seems to mark these failed attempts as "unavailable" after it's tried them, but lo and behold moments later it's trying them again, marked as "available".

It gets worse. I think OK, I know exactly which connection I want to connect to, so I'll just find it on the list and do a tap-and-hold on it and click "connect". But in the time it takes to do this, the manager has stopped trying one signal and started trying another, and every time it does this it jumps up to the top of the list, so it's impossible to actually find your preferred signal and click "connect" before it changes attempts and snaps back up to the top of the list.

I see the signal I want. I attempt to connect to it. The WiFi manager not only makes it impossible for me to select it, but it also spends 5 minutes like a dumbass attempting to connect to signals that aren't even there. Seriously, am I missing something? Or does WiFi manager fail to provide the most basic function you would expect it to perform flawlessly?