Apologies for not replying to you right away. I intended to follow up but HN wouldn't let me because my account is too new. No, it wasn't a random snipe. I used Windows extensively from 95-Vista and Win 10 for work. In my person user experience W11 is bafflingly bad, and the MS team are making design choices that honestly make me feel like Windows ME was doing more right in that area.

Now the argument that genAI is helping them find and fix bugs faster has a lot of merit because it can be pretty darn good at that. But for lack of a better phrase, 'The Windows 11 Experience' feels, as other users pointed out too, either vibe coded or like the dev teams went insane. I live and die by Debian in my servers and I really hope the same kind of thing doesn't happen to them.