All of these gripes are valid. And none of them aside from the new actively-evil stuff in 10 and 11 like telemetry can ever be fixed, because all of this poorly

All of these gripes are valid. And none of them aside from the new actively-evil stuff in 10 and 11 like telemetry can ever be fixed, because all of this poorly-matched stuff is exactly why almost all old Windows software (apart from games, that's just a lie thanks to DRM and GPU vendors) still run.