> The practical effect is they are forcing you to spend more money.

In the average case sure, in my case nope.

I currently dual boot windows 10 and Fedora with Windows 10 been strictly for gaming only.

I bought a windows 10 licence for that.

I won't buy a windows 11 license for that.

I'll game on Fedora where I can and will buy a console for everything else (and probably for the first time a PS not Xbox since I've owned every version of Xbox but the current one).