Windows Vista to Windows 10 as an overall platform made many bad decisions, but these are mostly from terrible product planning and UX. The internals (kernel, comprehensive HAL and huge driver library) are the only existing, solid alternative to Linux (and to a degree bsd) that does many things uniquely from their UNIXy counterparts.

As a die-hard Linux user I would be very sad to see the loss of a different platform that explores unique ways of doing things. A near-total monopoly outside of research projects isn't good for Linux, or BSD.