Let's all be honest with ourselves for a moment. The thing that 99% of computer users want is something that *looks* like Windows 7 or XP (or Mac equivalent) and that *never changes*. Nobody cares or wants to know what happens under the hood, they just want to Do Computer and they want to do it in a way that is comfortable and *doesn't fucking change all the time*
@rolenthedeep what I want is the underlying system/kernel features of Windows 11 (thread scheduler tuned for modern highly-parallel hardware, processor groups, NUMA aware allocation, job sandboxing / mandatory integrity control, modern exploit mitigations and security controls, native virtualisation support, SMB3.1 + Direct RDMA, UMDF/WDF drivers, virtual desktop compositor, modern BCD + bitlocker feature set) with a reliable and cohesive front-end user experience like Windows 7.
@rolenthedeep and I don't even have a problem with Windows 11's visual design language, it's just all the constant nagging and getting in my way and moving things out from under me that drives me nuts. (that and the fact that they still haven't achieved feature parity between the old settings UI and the modern UWP-based settings frontend, despite it being there for over a decade now)