

It seems they're running in every direction at once and just give up on each direction halfway through.

Not in itself a bad thing, don't get me wrong. Too many developers were switching to Mac, so now Linux is integrated. Windows 11 removes customization options whilst that is exactly what Windows is about. Almost a decade later, and not even in Windows 11, is the UI consistent. Windows 8, a UI clusterfuck, introduced a new design language. Increasingly, it feels like some hybrid cloud OS, where gradually you give up user control. Windows used to be a system where you had the feeling its yours. To this day, store apps look like they're made for phones. But hardly anybody has a mobile Windows device, so it misses the target.

Then they figured we now live in a mobile/touch world and went in that direction. Windows is a fundamentally mediocre OS that is made great by means of its wide compatibility with software and hardware.
