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> In practice if I actually performed those exact steps I will probably have edge open up with a web search of the letters I typed.

Not for me since I disabled web search feature of the start menu, but I get what you mean. I still prefer this option than being limited by the Win95 way. I always have 10+ apps opened at once. Having to manually launch them via the menu tree every time I boot up my OS would be a nightmare. This wasn't an issue in Win95 because I only had 16mb of RAM so I only launched one or two apps simultaneously, like for example MS Word for a school project and Winamp for listening to music while working and that's it. The kind of multitasking people do today without even thinking (50+ Chrome tabs, IDEs, Discord, Signal, Spotify, Steam, WSL, Plex, etc) was unheard of in Win95.

>Just because I want the older stuff

Yes, but you failed to explain exactly what "old stuff" UI did Win95 had that you don't have today and really need? You can still launch apps via the desktop shortcuts or the tedious start-menu tree view in Modern Windows as well like it's 1995, if that's what you miss from Win95, nobody forces you to use the broken search feature you dislike of modern windows.

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