After Nadella saying he regretted cancelling the windows phone [1], this would seem to be double downing on stupidity.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-s...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-s...
Since this move would make (advanced) user experience worse, it sounds very realistic to me.
Had they suddenly say "Windows 11 was a big mistake, we are moving back to Windows 7 experience, HTML-based pseudo-UIs are banned" etc. - now that would sound unrealistic.