Raymond Chen explained in 2003 that Microsoft gave users a way back to old UI while they adjusted, then removed it once complaints stopped. That discipline broke down over the years, leaving Windows 11 full of unfinished replacements, from Control Panel to WebView2 apps burning over a gigabyte of RAM.
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