This. I didn't hate 8. I used it for several years without much trouble, and almost immediately regreted upgrading from it. I know a lot of people were put off

This. I didn't hate 8. I used it for several years without much trouble, and almost immediately regreted upgrading from it. I know a lot of people were put off by 8's UX changes, but they weren't that bad, especially compared to everything in your face AND under the hood that changed for the worst in 10. We even got the start menu back by 8.1 (and I never had an issue with the start screen, save issues navigating it with a mouse that were corrected IIRC). Honestly, I even miss the charms bar/gesture; it was easy to make a larg general swipe and then choose "shutdown" to shutdown.