Why is opening the taskbar right click menu slower on Win11 than on Win95? Why is there a gap between the menu and the taskbar? I used to have muscle memory t

Why is opening the taskbar right click menu slower on Win11 than on Win95? Why is there a gap between the menu and the taskbar? I used to have muscle memory to quickly close windows rightclick taskbar -> leftclick “close” but this stopped working. Why??