probably because they were spending all those years putting annoying ads in the OS and start menu.

MS has enough developers to build two features at the same time.

1. Ads in the Start Menu.

2. Ads in the rest of the OS.

You would think, yet WinUI 3.0 is years away to achieve parity with WinUI 2.0/UWP tooling.

Hopefully it reaches parity with WPF before the OS gets EOL'd

Or with the pleothora of AI announcements at BUILD, they will get CoPilot to do it for us. /s

But not to fix annoying and abundantly obvious bugs, apparently

So what you're suggesting is that they won't put any more annoying ads in the OS? ;)

The Big WinRAR lobby /s