I grew up on older wandoze OS versions. Used them until December when I switched to Linux. The older versions are nice and all but over time got worse, 8 and 8.1 were interesting to say the least, weren't the worst out of them all but I didn't like the change from 7 that they went to, that whole "metro" UI was weird and got more annoying than anything else in my mind. I found it interesting they tried to combine the two in 10, take the metro menu and shrink it down and combine that with the older menu, I found it odd and for the short 4 hours I had it installed I didn't like it, I much prefered the older one, I liked that style and how it responded to everything, it just worked really well.
People adapt and if they want to configure what they can to how they want, I mean, take a look at that rainmeter stuff, that's interesting and if you use linux, you can use Conky for something similar to that. Or, just configure your shit how you want, it's all up to you with linux, fuck I run my whole system off keybindings, my mouse doesn't do anything unless the program has a use for it, that's how I set my system up as I wanted a minimal setup with low resource costs, that's what I got and I love it and wouldn't change back to a UI like that. I still tweak my stuff but not much anymore given it's how I want it, tweaking is usually minor stuff anyway.