Re: Could be worse
Good thing to keep in mind, that.
The scanner only shows up as a not-quite-TWAIN USB thing in device manager, unless it's got a weird DFU mode that only shows a virtual disk at boot.
It's an older Epson with the 35mm film/slide scan feature, using EpsonScan.
If it weren't for the film scan section (which is used frequently enough archiving family photos), I'd have switched out to a laser mopier when I replaced the money-pit inkjet...