That hardly has a place when the question was whether one should accept the update from 8, to 8.1.
My comment was motivated by amusement over your gruntle not being dissed. The topic of the thread deals with market share, not whether to upgrade or not. Do issues of control arise elsewhere in your life as well?
That notwithstanding, Windows 8 is a silly GUI born of a faulty premise. No patch or upgrade short of ditching the McDonald’s cash register look and function of it will address this fundamental flaw.
Classic Shell addresses it. 8.1 does not.