The first comment in the article hits the nail on the head. The start menu's are broken because everyone is trying to fix a non-problem with the old win95 styl

The first comment in the article hits the nail on the head. The start menu's are broken because everyone is trying to fix a non-problem with the old win95 style hierarchical menu and creating things with worse problems. Particularly, once the half dozen programs the user clicks frequently are pinned in a quick launch area or at the top level of the menu. For touch screen users, just bump the clickable area size for each menu and it would present a better solution than iOS, Android or win10 currently provide.