At one time, Windows was a very good operating system with a useful, reasonably intuitive GUI grafted onto it. It's become an advertising vehicle, with a great operating system grafted onto it, but hidden below it.
IMO the underlying operating system of Windows 10 -- the platform the applications run on -- is a beautiful thing, and the most solid Microsoft has produced to date. But all the crap they've ladled over it, Metro and animated tiles and advertising sales pitches... it's really a shame.
I hope somebody figures out how to scrape all that cr@p off, and just let me get some work done. Classic Shell is a sanity-saver, but it only goes partway towards a return to what we took for granted with Windows 7 and XP before that. I wouldn't go back to the XP OS -- it was buggy and insecure -- but the UI sure made it easy to get work done.
I WANT to like Windows 10. It's the future of Windows, and it will be in my future. But for now, Windows 7 is still the sweet spot for me. I view "People in my taskbar" with annoyance, not joy.
Actually, I find Windows 10 to be “almost” exactly like Windows 7, but more secure and with a few more features and, actually, faster.
I don’t even use the “metro” UI, and the desktop looks exactly like what Windows 7 used to be like.
So, no complaints from me, and I don’t miss Win7 at all.