I never was a Vista fan - considered it a pile of junk. Win7 and XP were the two best OS that Microsoft came up with. 8 was almost as bad as Vista, but that may have been planned to prep folks to be willing to jump to 10.
MS could probably make good money if they would keep selling a clean version of 7, but it doesn’t fit in with their current business model.
I have heard Vista was a dog..but it is my first and only computer so of course I didn’t notice the difference many seemed to complain about. ....Still using Windows 7....opted not to change.
I agree about MS....it’s about booting people fro what they like to buy their recent products and this by force.