I've been brainstorming over here. I really do not talk to a lot of people about this stuff. Not even family. But I am working on building out my own OS, well Linix Hybrid with my own neat stuff.
But in the future, where it all comes together is I been using Gemini to brainstorm ideas for a Stark style Automated house with a lot of his Gadgets. Not the suit. But a lot of his in-house cool and neat stuff.
I've been in a good few-hour convo with Gemini over this, and walking me through some code and whatnot, and well, Hardware design and stuff.
Not going to happen overnight, but in the future, I may have a house that is like Stark's. With a real talking Jarvis.
That's probably not the end of the world today Eddie but that posture will become less safe over time. New vulnerabilities and exploits will doubtless be discovered and developed but Windows 10 won't receive any protection against these. If you are using it for sensitive data (eg: banking), that could become a big risk for you.
It sucks that we get force-marched into "upgrades" that somehow seem worse than what we had before sometimes but that's just the world we find ourselves in.
If your hardware isn't up to Windows 11 (and you don't want to hack your way past the gate-keeper that stops you from upgrading legacy hardware in case MS pull the rug out from under you further down the track) then you might consider Linux at some point. Some of the newer Linux version are reasonably user-friendly but are going to be different from what you're used to. That path doesn't work for me because I use some applications that only run in Windoze.
At some point Windoze 10 will be rendered unsafe for online use.
It looks to me like they've either seriously dropped the ball on regression testing or (and I suspect this is possibly more likely), the whole architecture has gotten so complex that they're in a supportability nightmare where almost any line of code they touch breaks something they can't immediately see.
It sounds like you have a *really* compelling case for it now too. It is genuinely just easier to have no control and change a diaper on your own schedule than either constantly use a foley or have to use a cath every time you need to urinate.