I have the taskbar on the left on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Removing this customization makes me wonder who the hell makes these decisions. Do Windows developers not dogfood their own OS? Apparently the person making these decisions only uses the taskbar on the bottom and it must be good enough to disrupt the workstations of millions I'm sure.
Taskbar can no longer be moved.
That single "improvement" will keep me away for as long as possible. It's the first thing I change when setting up a new Windows environment, and have done it for over a decade. I'm enough not alone that I've seen in mentioned in multiple articles.
MS makes all kinds of noise about "reworking the UI from the ground up for true usability" or some such. Yet I have no idea what could possibly be the benefit to removing such functionality. MS says they listen, but obviously not.
Unless a developer has a massive and utterly revolutionary improvement in the way we interact with the machine, and it yields 10X productivity improvements (or even 3X) for 90% of the user base - fkn leave it alone!!
Marginal improvements are the worst - the time spent relearning, or fumbling while using a different machine is never recovered, and it just makes people annoyed at you. Even if the improvements are "free" the price is too high.