If you have other devices though, you may perceive it as getting slower. An older laptop with an HDD absolutely chugs compared to an SSD. That's been my experience with older devices, my newer ones spoil me on any OS
Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to keep things running with various licensing schemes and whatnot. Hell Microsoft even keeps breaking my old Office install with windows 10 updates forcing me to constantly fix it because they want me to update to their office 360 offering. All that said, both the hardware and software stack are getting a little silly even at the low level. You can send a keypress around the world as a data packet faster than you can send it to your monitor now a days.