I used to work in IT. We had a sales guy, English, real Delboy type. He demanded we buy him a MacBook Air so he could look cool when he got it out at client meetings. However because he didn’t know the first thing about macOS, he made us wipe it and install windows XP on it.

It sent shivers down my spine every time he turned it on and the chimes started…

I used windows all my life. I don’t want to relearn everything, especially considering most of the original designs stems from wanting to be user friendly. Unless you mean mimic as in a weird 1:1 look copy then yeah, it’s weird.

Personally, I just use KDE. It’s not my fault Microsoft is tweaking their Windows for a decade to look like it.