Vista had a number of QOL improvements, and later in the cycle once the drivers and apps were fixed to stop demanding admin access all the time, and the terribl

Vista had a number of QOL improvements, and later in the cycle once the drivers and apps were fixed to stop demanding admin access all the time, and the terrible Intel GPUs that struggled with XP and died under Vista were replaced, it was pretty good. Arguably better than XP. 7 and 10 didn't really give most folks much better experience, they benefited from Vista already forcing everyone to update their crap.