It'd be cool indeed, but it's a humongous task :) One of the reasons I showed the Surface Go 2 tablet is because it is running the Microsoft out-of-the-box exp

It'd be cool indeed, but it's a humongous task :) One of the reasons I showed the Surface Go 2 tablet is because it is running the Microsoft out-of-the-box experience. So... I'd expect 1. for it to behave nicely and 2. for Microsoft to have profiled and optimized this. It is true that Windows 10 (the version that originally shipped with it) behaved better, but not by much. In any case, the Surface Go 3 is a contemporary computer with Windows 11 and people quote it as only being 15% faster than the Go 2, so it's not going to be substantially better than what I showed. Apple has traditionally fared better in this regard. In general, any new computer model they launch runs the contemporary OS version perfectly well, even if the newer OS does more stuff. I also question whether all of the "extra stuff we do today" is valuable though... but the answer will depend on who you ask.