Yes there is (especially in terms of feature support from Win 7 to Win 10), but it is true that there are a lot of functions mandated for Windows 11 that could definitely run on prior windows versions. While there are significant rewrites in the codebase from each major version, a lot of the base stuff stays the same for backwards compatibility’s sake, so a lot of features could totally be backported to say, Windows 10 or with enough effort, even Windows 7 or 8.1.

With that being said, if Windows is getting better for the user with each version is up for debate, but I think it’s fair to say that there’s a lot of bullshit features in Windows 11 that aren’t exactly compelling for Windows 10 users. The hardware restrictions especially are totally arbitrary, they do not need to exist whatsoever.

Microslop also isn’t exactly winning people over with their premonitions of what they want Windows to become (a cloud-base subscription where you own nothing and have perpetual data scraping), leading to some people looking at Linux distros or cracked Windows 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC as better options.