A lot of people also spent a lot of time hating on Windows, which they only were so familiar with because it had already reached such overwhelming "critical mas

A lot of people also spent a lot of time hating on Windows, which they only were so familiar with because it had already reached such overwhelming "critical mass in the wild". Does it follow that all these complaints were ultimately misguided? (I don't have any particularly strong opinions on Windows myself; it just seemed an apropos example for the Hacker News crowd. There are a million other examples of the same type, of course.)