[ClumsyPilot]

> "last notable improvements were introduced in Win XP"

I am not here to advocate that Windows is great, but to write something like this is just daft.

Visual consistency is not the main challenge of an OS, Windows is not MacOS in terms of visual polish and never will be.

The list of changes since those days is enormous. Just as an example - in XP any software could outright delete Windows folder or boot file and leave your computer uncountable. Modern UWP applications live in a sandboxed container with tight permissions and uninstall leaving no trace.