Last time I checked, Windows 11's UI is as ruined by the existence of touchscreens as it's ever been since 8. There are also ads in the taskbar. There are also

Last time I checked, Windows 11's UI is as ruined by the existence of touchscreens as it's ever been since 8. There are also ads in the taskbar. There are also all the Edge shenanigans. There are also updates that know better than you do what you want (that "sane configuration" for that Windows 10 VM actually included disabling all update-related services). Windows 7 was the last properly-desktop version of Windows. Does Apple also ruin the UI on macOS? Yes, absolutely. But they still don't do it that much, and they actually officially acknowledge that someone might have reasons to stay on an old version — they provide security updates for 2 additional years for all old versions. They also understand that people use computers to get jobs done and thus are not to be interrupted with sudden "let's cross this one out of your list" modals. In an ideal world though, an OS doesn't need updating at all and has zero vulnerabilities. But I guess just hold the f up and stop with your endless feature creep and focus all your engineering on fixing your shit is too much to ask from the modern IT industry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯