There are two kinds of Windows users—and one of them is unknowingly making the OS worse

Most Windows users just want to get to the desktop, so they blindly accept whatever Microsoft wants them to install. That indifference is exactly what Microsoft is counting on, and it’s shaped the OS for years in ways that frustrate people who actually pay attention. If people paid more attention to what was going on, Windows wouldn’t have nearly as much bloat as it does now, and it would be much faster.