I agree. Windows 7 was the last of the coherent Windows interfaces, in my opinion (and many corporate/governmental/military operations).
The Windows desktop interface reached it’s peak in ease-of-use with XP. After that was behind-the-scenes codebase changes, like 32-bit to 64-bit processing, etc.
Windows 8 and 10 just took that interface and defenestrated it. Of course the interface didn’t work well for mobile devices; it was never meant for them. Microsoft should have just made a different interface for mobile devices, one with tiles and silly flipping nonsense like you now see on desktops today.
And let’s not forget the inability to teach Grandma and Grandpa how to use Windows 10. So you want to completely cut off a userbase that has disposable income and a demand for connections with the outside world via e-mail, videos, and other wonders of the Internet? Then tell old people to get bent and make an interface that is practically useless to them, with stupid eye candy and moronic app names.
For them, there is a market:
Intel PC with Linux-based touch-enabled interface, that is the much ballyhooed Internet appliance, instead of a confusing jumble.
Agree with all you said. I even liked Vista — after I got Windows 10. (Skipped 8.)
I’d like to “defenestrate” my Win. 10 laptop. LOL!!