Actually, it takes 1 click to choose to boot direct to the “Win7 desktop” screen.
FWIW, my desktop screen appears almost instantly on Win8.1
That's fine.
Now for the real question:
What about Windows 8 is so much better that I should abandon my perfectly suitable Windows 7, -AND- pay a bunch of money for a Win8 license, -and- spend a bunch of my time screwing with it to beat it into something vaguely akin to what I already have?Answer: Nothing, as far as I can tell. Waste of time and money.