I have far more annoyances with Windows 11 than mint these days but that is a matter of opinion and use cases I suppose. I actually generally used to like the Windows UI, but it keeps getting less responsive. I wish they'd just stop.

Here's one: Why does the OneDrive option load 3-4 seconds AFTER the new right click context menu loads causing everything to move down and for me to click the wrong thing as it moves under my mouse cursor? I hated that on the web so they brought it to the desktop UI.

I guess there is no accounting for taste, but I really find Gnome Desktop to be the one that wastes me the least amount of time. Mac is a close second (even though some things are hidden in hard to find places, such as the user's Python environment).

For as long as I used Windows it always had a bizarre strata of inconsistent and increasingly archaic GUI styles going all the way back to Windows 3.1. I'm a regular user of Ubuntu, Fedora, and PopOS, and they all look and feel better than Windows.

I’ve found KDE Plasma to be quite stable. At least compared to Windows. I haven’t used macOS in quite a few years but AFAIC it’s pretty much impossible to beat that UI.

You're saying it like it's a bad thing. This is one of the major reasons I use FOSS UNIX-like operating systems. (Not just linux, but FreeBSD too.) Because the desktop environment of my choice has stayed the same for more than 20 years without the need to relearn everything and adjust your workflow every time somebody in Microsoft needs a promotion. Scary to think how much time for bullshitting on internet forums has been saved over that period.