It is quite telling how far stagnation has gone when the latest and greatest operating system can basically do the same stuff as one from 13 years ago.
In the end of the 90s on my Pentium machine I had Windows 98 with 10 mbit LAN, web browsing, instant messages, code editor, word processor, spreadsheet application, video player, music player, image processing, content streaming, 3D accelerated games etc (on slower hardware).
The two major differences since then I can think of is that increased quality of media (images, videos, music etc) and interoperability, it is usually easier today to share documents and the like between different platforms.
Sure, there has also been improvements with system security and system stability, but neither of them adds to user workflow and productivity.
I tried Windows 11, but I had to go back to Windows 10, because I couldn't keep my old workflow, a workflow that has existed since Windows 95.
My own first computer that I bought for my own money, a Commodore 64, on that you just powered it on and started coding in BASIC.