[no_time]

I was about to say "because of the maintenance burden and separation of core and extra features" but then I remembered that half the stuff they added since win2k is borderline useless.

[gjvc]

win2k was peak windows; all it needed was 64-bit support and cleartype

[spookthesunset]

And support for high DPI displays, and Bluetooth, and modern Wi-Fi, and probably a bunch of other stuff I’m forgetting!

[lwkl]

PowerShell, BitLocker, SSH, WinRM, Appx and msix and MDM integration come to mind. I don‘t want to go back to the days where managing Windows meant clicking around in GUIs.

[gjvc]

my win32 needs are more modest than yours :-)