Feels like Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot with Win11 as far as consumers are concerned, and instead sees the future of Windows in enterprise.
I think Microsoft has given up on consumers for Windows. I don't believe it cares about them any more. The Windows tax is still around, but I'm pretty sure computer sales in general are a lot lower than they used to be. Hardware upgrades aren't so rapid any more. You're not seeing clock speeds double every couple years like you did in the 90s and early 2000s. Sure, they're adding more and more cores, but that has little or no benefit to someone who doesn't run serious software. I replaced my laptop last year, only after the previous one, which I'd had for at least 8 years suffered a motherboard death. I left Windows 10 on it, but I'm thinking about switching to Linux Mint. I will definitely do so when I have no other option to avoid Windows 11.