My biggest gripe is they finally removed the option to have windows not combined with labels in the taskbar. I guess it was bound to happen eventually.

That is the biggest feature stopping me from upgrading. I generally have 20-30 windows open, usually 4 or 5 browser windows with tabs grouped by what I'm doing with them. Combined labels would destroy my workflow.

It's pretty clear they're moving towards MacOS.

Right click taskbar > taskbar settings > taskbar behavior > taskbar alignment: Left

This functionality was removed in Windows 11 and as far as I know has not yet returned.

I literally went through those steps in order to write that comment. The functionality is not gone.

Are you talking about aligning the icons to the left or the whole taskbar?

We're talking about moving the whole taskbar to the left (or right) of the screen similar to how Ubuntu looks for example.

You used to be able to move the taskbar to any edge of the screen but that functionality was removed in Windows 11.