As a Win7 fan I refused to upgrade to Win10. Somehow I was forced to use Win11, and I like it, with a few graphical tweaks.
I have to admit that I was in the same boat. I installed Never10 software on my Windows 7 computers to keep them from migrating to Windows 10 against my wishes. It was new hardware that came with Windows 10 that eventually convinced me to migrate most of my computers. I have still got a big tower running Windows XP with high end audio recording equipment installed in it that I fire up every once in a while.