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The baseline in the past was that your program ran on bare metal or in the windowing system being written in assembly or C/Pascal. Nowadays your program runs in the browser which runs in the Windowing system, your program being written in 20 levels deep JS abstractions.

They call this progress.

even though it does about the same as Windows 7 did.

That is your opinion. Did you check the number of svchost.exe instances on the two OSs ? Did you check the number of system processes.

Win 11 has telemetry, to improve it. It really cares about your security, although the bad guys are still able to install ransomware. And, the most important, Windows 11 has rounded corners and 3D acceleration for the 2D windowing system.

See ? A lot of improvements. Now of course, you have 2 (gray) colour choices: light or dark. But this is because of astonishing advances in Computer Science.

And, last but not least, a quote from John Malkovitch: see youtube Space Force.

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plenty of software gets better because of updates

This was true for old Microsoft Windows releases. This is not true anymore. Everything is a rolling release. Angry users ? F*k them. They will get an update.

Why does software eat the world in a decade,

Does it, though ? If healtcare was reinventing the wheel and adding layers of abstraction as SW does, we will all be at the hospital waiting for "bug fixes and performance inprovements".