Fifteen years later, I am still waiting for them to undo the damage that was done.
And when people cried what 'oh noes i cant find a needed program in that awful fullscreen start menu uwu' I just show my Vista Start Menu list which took 4 FullHD screen heights on the small font settings.
And as people in the nearby comments say the problem here is what there is a lot of newcomers who just do shit - by mere lack of knowledge or worse by being KPI driven. Just like the last update of Mozilla Firefox which added ellipsised tabs. Like... for what? On the desktop?
The problem wasn't Metro itself -- it was the ham-fisted, halfhearted integration with the rest of Windows that proved irksome. Windows 8 was the version that introduced Settings alongside Control Panel -- 15 years later, the merge is almost complete.