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Yes, this Windows 11 change is going to catch a lot of people out. Computers were fairly wonderful, often impressive, up to maybe the mid-90's, I'd say. I even thought Windows 2000 Server was okay, though it was around then that I looked after a Windows desktop whose networking worked only if I configured it so as to cause the dialog warning me it'd not work.

The state of software engineering seems such that it's gone downhill since, judging by the confusing, buggy rubbish we accept as normal these days. How this stuff gets past QA, I don't want to know. Needlessly it's far more work than it should be to coax most things into decent behavior. Having IT skills makes it very annoying because you so clearly see what they should have done instead. I guess, a bit like my handyman seeing various stuff in the house that wasn't done cheaply, simply incompetently. Though, it helps to be able to guess enough about what's really going on so as to be able to devise a workaround.

I'd also say that Macs are nowhere near as intuitively usable as the market image suggests. I had naively gone in with high expectations and was shocked when I first got much exposure to them and found basic UI principles repeatedly violated.

You're right to be annoyed. As a Chartered IT Professional, there sure are times I wish that IT weren't my career, so I could reduce my involvement accordingly.