Microsoft really picked the wrong abstraction here. They wanted it so that each device can be separately configured and known, implementing a system that can support if you plug ten devices that are exactly the same, but want them configured differently. Whereas on linux, it's more like "if I plug in a logitech xyz mouse, I want it working like so". Ultimately, I think not even power users have much use for this behaviour being the default, but it's too late to change it on Windows. Maybe if they let you define a set of devices for which you WANT settings to be keyed by port+device, whereas the rest you want keyed only by device type.