Confusing UI/UX for blocked Windows Services

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The following windows service looks very strange.

In the Apps interface, it say that blocked connections are not enabled, while the status box say it's 100% blocked. WTF does that mean?

I'm sure there must be a way to make this more clear.

In addition-1, I cannot find any simply way to unblock, or block a windows service. What did I miss?

In addition-2, why is the service Description left out from the interface?

Discovers networked devices and services that use the SSDP discovery protocol, such as UPnP devices. Also announces SSDP devices and services running on the local computer. If this service is stopped, SSDP-based devices will not be discovered. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

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# Get-Service SSDPSRV | select ServiceName, DisplayName, BinaryPathName, Description | fl

ServiceName    : SSDPSRV
DisplayName    : SSDP Discovery
BinaryPathName : C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation -p
Description    : Discovers networked devices and services that use the SSDP discovery protocol, such as UPnP devices. Also announces SSDP devices and services running
                 on the local computer. If this service is stopped, SSDP-based devices will not be discovered. If this service is disabled, any services that
                 explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

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