I'm happy that one can, at least, change the default centered bar to left-aligned. There was an early beta where this was not the case. I can imagine, if I was

I'm happy that one can, at least, change the default centered bar to left-aligned. There was an early beta where this was not the case. I can imagine, if I was using a tablet, I'd probably prefer it centered, and I guess its "new" that way, which looks better in screenshots, so I wouldn't really complain. The single inexplicable change, to me, is not only the removal of labeled windows (which is annoying, but bearable): its the removal of separated, non-grouped windows. You have to hover over the application with multiple windows, to make the popup appear, to switch the active window. Or alt-tab. Its how MacOS behaves (with non-minimized windows)! Its how Gnome3/Ubuntu behaves (iirc)! And its baffling! I don't know how anyone, let alone every major operating system vendor, has come to the conclusion that the best way to handle the insanely common use-case of having multiple windows open, is to force the user into not just another click, but a hover. Heck, I'm fine with it being the default; just give me an option to enable it. It really is my only major complaint about Win11 right now. Which is, I suppose praise. Taskbar search is obscenely slow after the computer has been inactive for a bit; search has always been slow, but it also took a step backward (Ryzen 5800x? 64gb of memory? 2TB gen4 nvme drive? just heading off the low-hanging fruit if any Windows engineers are reading this; its not my computer, its your code). That's roughly it; its a fine OS. But; its still painful. Not just because the functionality is missing, but more-so because their insistence on authoritarian design makes me, a customer, feel unwelcome. Its hard to make things configurable; but you have a billion users. You can't dictate one experience that works for everyone, despite whatever the macbook-toting designers say. Even asking customers doesn't work because if you make a change that angers 0.1% of your userbase, that's a million people. So, just... keep things configurable.