Devils advocate I upgraded last week (after holding off for a long time) and it's working well for me. Memory management seems much better with WSL / in general (not having to restart nearly as much). I make use of virtual desktops a lot, and the no animation when switching between them is a nice QOL, but one I couldn't go back on.

You can make everything less hostile quickly by removing the search bar, and removing the "search web" feature in start menu etc in a couple of minutes.