I feel like "it does more" is often a cop out that's used without justifying whether the performance is actually commensurate to the additional features. If slowness if 20% extra features and 80% waste, "it does more" is just a deflection from the real issue.

Well, this blog post specifically seems like MS is doing 95% idiotic things.

But you look at something like Linux where obviously the Linux of 2022 is going to lag on 2002 hardware the answer is definitely that it's prettier and does more in general.

I run linux on 2010 hardware, and it's fine; perfectly snappy.