> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table

It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'.

Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher), but it's not an ideal solution

(Still, it's not as bad as Win8 and the big attempt to push a locked-down dumbed-down touch-centric monopolistic-app-store-based replacement to 'real Windows')

Newer CPUs with performance and efficiency cores require 11 for proper scheduling.

Better memory management, better wsl, newer cpu support, better multi monitor and desktop features. It actually has a lot of ui improvements as well (like most of control panel has been finally migrated compared to windows 10) but at the same time regressions mostly related to the taskbar.

Exactly how I feel. Windows 11 has no features that interest me, and in fact does not play well with several pieces of software I use, making it a direct downgrade for me.

My assumed eventual upgrade will only come because Microsoft assures me that they will stop supporting security updates for Windows 10.

I had this discussion with "standard" (non-power) users, and the opposite reasoning actually applies.

The concept of upgrade is appealing in itself, and since the technical details are not understood (or worse, not relevant) to standard users, from their perspective, upgrading is a net win.