The modern iteration of the Start menu is a particular travesty and has been rendered all but unusable in order to push you to Bing by accident.

Microsoft simply must believe that Windows can survive the users hating this crap, and I fear they are right. For myself 11 was bad enough to finally try out Steam on Debian and was pleasantly surprised. KDE is closer to being the Windows desktop I want than Windows 11 is, which is just insane.

Minor point for the article, OOBE is a very widespread term in the consumer technology industry, not MS specific.