When Windows Phone was a thing, those live tiles were amazing. Those giant squares in the Win10 start menu were live tiles.
Such a shame that so few applications on Win10 made use of them.
Never saw the point of them. I prefer static content, something which most web designers can't wrap their heads around.
Easy navigation is something Mac sucks at for no good reason. I don't know why Windows is trying to degrade their advantage.
They never made sense for desktop interfaces with a keyboard and mouse. Information density is usually preferred, because we have big screens and precise, fast input.