I think it's generous to say anything after 7 was good.

8 was just so offensively bad with getting rid of the start menu and replacing it with a fullscreen tablet UI, 10 was celebrated for backtracking on that.

But it was also famous for shoving bullshit like Candy Crush into everyone's start menu. I haven't forgotten that.

  - XP was good
  - vista was bad
  - 7 was good
  - 8 was a disaster
  - 10 was worse
  - 11 is even worse

It's a downward spiral.

Windows 11 is bad but will only get worse with AI updates.