It is crazy - the File Explorer in 7 is fine just needed a little modernisation in places - improved file copy, etc. dialog, sidebar list of active file destinations including other open Explorer windows so you can drag from the one screen and so on. At least they've cleaned it up a little from 10 but it is still a fragmented, visually noisy, poorly thought out mess.
How MS can't just get these bread and butter, tried and tested parts of the OS right just boggles my mind.
I've tried Win11 a few times on an old machine. Liked the cleaned up explorer tree but other than that it's was just meh.
I dislike the all the privacy and MS Account stuff. For me that ends up as 5 family accounts which I then have to manage.
This is something which seems to persistently not enter the thick skulls of those developing the OS and something some posters don't seem to be able to understand - it is one thing if you have 1 or maybe 2 PCs and a fairly average user - but when you are dealing with multiple systems in different types of use and uses which might be even just a little bit different to average 10 and 11 are just a pain in the rear and something which might be a minor inconvenience at best when you deal with it once becomes a huge chore when it is duplicated many times.
For all its flaws at least 98 was an OS developed with the concept that an OS's main purpose is to enable the end user and everything else is secondary to that. With 10/11 the end user is treated like a product.