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I miss the all the research that went into developing 95's UI. So much effort went into making computers usable and discoverable for the lay person. The user was the focus of the OS. Seems a little less so now, especially with some of the usability that went away with 11.

Can you fucking imagine telling a 90s Windows developer who just built an amazing multi-tasking multi-window UI that a 2022 innovation was taking away the ability to label the windows on the taskbar?

Literally more or less all UI research from that era came from elsewhere and MS still screwed it up. Probably on purpose to sell new versions at a later date. Even the MAC UI R&I from that era comes straight from systems such as NEXT and the Amiga. Jobs was no creative genius, but he indeed was focusing on the user. Today, only free software seems to do so. Something the previous is built upon, and developed further.

1990s Microsoft: "Where do you want to go today?"

2000s Microsoft: "Where do you want to try to go today?"

2010s Microsoft: "Where did you go today ?"

2020s Microsoft: "Where do we want you to go today?"

/completed that for you

"We will tell you where to go today" was the running joke in the late 90s already.