There have been so many Desktop Environments over the years, but I still feel that Windows 95 perfected the desktop experience.

Even today, if you look at MacOS, it's just the Windows 95 interface, with the taskbar moved to the top of the screen, open tasks kept on the bottom of the screen, and instead of a Start menu, there's Spotlight Search. Same thing, messier execution (just to be different).

> if you look at MacOS, it's just the Windows 95 interface

That may be true, but certainly not because macOS got inspired by Windows, rather because Windows 95 was inspired by NeXTStep.