But that's who I feel like Windows at least with Windows 11 is making the changes for. well no let me correct myself, they're making changes for convertible laptop users that use touch but they're also making changes for people that don't exist... Actually scratch that I have no idea who they're making these changes for... I keep using my taskbar and my start menu the way I like to use it and I keep wanting to expand my start menu because I pin things to my start menu because that's a thing you can do... But now I have buttons I could press so I could see the next metaphorical page of things that I have pinned... But then I pin things to the taskbar because the desktop is an unusable mess where everything just goes when I install things... So the desktop is disabled so my taskbar and my start menu is my desktop... But the changes they are making make making changes to the taskbar and the start menu impossible... And I don't have a touch screen device but I feel like also using any of this on a touch screen, none of the targets are the right size... So again I'm unsure who they're making this for if the desktop and laptop users are the ones who will go extinct. There are no other users. There are clearly zero users that these changes are for.
This might be somewhat accurate for personal computing, but business computing will continue to be done with desktops and laptops for decades. Windows itself is mainly dominant because of its dominance at an enterprise level.
The entire conversation is about laptop and desktop OSes. The complaint is that all OSes for these devices have changed for the worse and continue to do so. These devices will continue to be produced and used, but by fewer people. These people are the ones who hate the UIs in newer OSes.
Most people may move to iOS and Android, but that's a moot point since those aren't the people or the OSes that the article is about.