A business will mod and tweak a bit the Windows edition it installs for lets say 300 desktop computers sitting in one building. So one of these mods is to include a start button for Windows 8 such as classic shell or start 8. I fail to see how this is a problem. The only problem is a lack of common sense.
Don't worry about it. My opinion as a user, developer, and administrator of Windows for 30 years, about whether Microsoft erred on the Win8 UI, is just my opinion. Microsoft's hundreds of millions of customers are the ones whose opinions really matter.
Let's all look forward to Windows 10, which is the subject of this thread anyway. Win 10 promises to be a lot better, in pretty much every respect.
Have a great day!