The point was to get rid of legacy code. Plain and simple. That’s what they have been trying to do with explorer as well. Not saying it has been going all hunky

The point was to get rid of legacy code. Plain and simple. That’s what they have been trying to do with explorer as well. Not saying it has been going all hunky dory. Also, I believe this specific statement regarding taskbar is their current stand - and will likely change later - considering the new taskbar is lacking so many other mission critical features which obviously take precedence over the ones which only a tiny fraction of community “want”.