No, it’s still accurate - the straight line goes through the center of the Earth. Only in coordinate systems where ‘straight’ is defined as following the curvature of a surface are there infinite lines between the North and South Poles… and that would be non-Euclidean geometry.
It would be fine if it had more ways to differentiate elements from each other - darkening around the edges of windows, buttons that actually look raised so they aren’t identical to a text box, scroll bars that aren’t SO FUCKING TINY that it’s clear MS is embarrassed that they exist in the first place, etc. etc.