Absolutely not.

ME was unstable but had charm, it deserved a lot of the dislike because NT was just so good... and they really should not have removed Real-Mode; that would have been the reason to use ME over NT2000...

Vista though?

If you genuinely gave me a patched Vista and said that it was a viable alternative to 11... I would 100% take that 10/10 times.

Vista's problem was that it was heavy and people sold devices that could barely run the basic version as if they were fully compatible.. Widgets were a bit of a misstep too, but I mean, you can ignore them. Oh and the new driver system meant that you needed totally new drivers for everything; and annoyingly the UAC dialog just got in everyones grill: but we still have that!

And anyway after SP2; Vista was a pretty good OS, especially on reasonable hardware for the time.

I would genuinely rather sniff farts all day and use Vista, than be forced into using the consumer version of Windows 11.

My IT department doesn't suck when it comes to trimming down Windows, but it's still not ideal, you can feel the shit constantly trying to break through.