I don't know what "regular users" experience, because I'm a seasoned power user, but I agree. At home, I run things like Plex, Photoshop, Premier, Battlefield One, 1998 StarCraft, Spider Solitaire... they just work. I haven't had a real issue on my desktop, 3 laptops or 1 tablet (RT!) in a few years. (The last big issue was on a pre-release version of Windows 10.) At work I run all the .NET developer tools, alongside some front-end dev tools like Node and Grunt (what even are these things, I don't know, they work). Git, Chrome, Firefox, (Edge did have an issue with sharing an overloaded cache with IE, ew!) They just work. My biggest issue with my work machine is that it occasionally asks me to type in a 5 billion digit BitLocker key. But for the work I make it do, it works remarkably well, without complaint. shrug I am probably not a typical Windows OS user with typical experiences. But I do push my machines hard. (The corporate overlords have this machine running CrashPlan, Trend Micro.. but I run IIS, NodeJS, MongoDB, Bing Desktop, Visual Studio, Outlook, Word/Excel, Adobe Acrobat, SQL Server... the list goes on.)

My home desktop is a Phenom II w/ just 4GB. It has had Vista, 7, 8/8.1 and now 10 on it. I think I did a clean sweep with 7, but I've gone through all the upgrades since then, and it's still running pretty well. (It won't cold boot, but that's a motherboard hardware problem!) It's approaching 10 years old at this point. Of course it has an SSD (actually 3...) or it would be pretty painful to use. But it isn't, and that's pretty impressive.