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That's acceptable for a desktop OS. It's not pretending it's server OS.

IIRC this is one of the NT kernel features since its inception. Maybe they tweaked the slider towards foreground apps a little more.

Didn't Windows already used to have a setting for this? I remember I used to set it more to 'balanced' than make the UI faster back when I had a Windows work machine. I guess that was more for process scheduling and not the MMS.

Windows 2000 used to have a setting for this, yes.

This feature has existed since Windows NT. Nothing has changed about it. By default, Windows will raise the priority of foreground apps a tick. You can turn that off if you want.