[Athari]

Windows 8 Start Menu was pure crap. It had half of the features the Start Menu has now in Windows 10. Features like named groups, collapsible folders, tiny icons, transparent tiles etc. were added long after Windows 10 release. Not to mention the Start Menu in Windows 8 was bugged as hell, like not working at all if more than 256 "apps" (actually files in the Start Menu folder) were installed.

But yes, by now, the Start Menu of Windows 10 is the best of all Start Menus of all Windows versions. There're a few features that I miss from the old times (like the full "All Apps" list not supporting subfolders, or lack of the "tiny icon with long text" size), but overall it's never been better, especially for crazy people like me with hundreds of apps.

It'd be really stupid of Microsoft to replace something as massive as this, which has been improved over many years, with a joke of UI with more "breathing space".