New doesn't mean better. For many people the change is "I got used to X then I need to get used to Y". While there being zero benefit in using Y over X, just a

New doesn't mean better. For many people the change is "I got used to X then I need to get used to Y". While there being zero benefit in using Y over X, just a cost to change. Case in point (for me, YMMV of course): For what I use (start a machine, run a single app and maybe a browser or two) there have been zero improvement in windows UI for last 2 decades. It's just moving shit around with occasionally wasting some more space coz tablet users need to click things and keeping separate theme for them is impossible to do for trillion dollar corporation. And I don't even use it for a living, just occasional gaming and app that needs windows. > Interestingly a lot of IT folks hate change even more then other people. Just ask around how many would love to have a windows 11 that looks like windows 2000. There is just no other explanation for it. Not "hate change". Improvements are welcome. Change for change's sake is not. If you're not well versed in windows quirks you might think that's just grumpy people getting grumpy but we got from one control panel for a thing to old panel with some features, new panel with some other features, missing the features of old panel, coz microsoft couldn't be fucking arsed to migrate all of it properly when they changed the UI. Or some stuff was hid in registry somewhere. It's akin to cars deciding that climate controls need to be on touchscreen now, behind some menu. It's not "new, better", it's "new, worse". To reiterate: it is not aversion to new, it is aversion to designer being fucking bored and changing stuff that worked fine into something else for no good reason.