@SecurityWriter I
loathe the throbbers and pulsating placeholders that now appear
everywhere.
A few months ago I installed Windows 7 on a Via C3 533MHz with 1GB RAM (and a 120GB SSD) to test something stupid, and the whole OS felt so snappy despite running on a CPU that was slow when it was released in 2001 compared to Win11 running on 9950X3D with 96GB RAM and NVMe SSD, and this is probably because on 7 when you clicked something, it might have taken a second or two for the window to appear, but once it was open, you could use it immediately. Modern stuff you click something, and window opens quickly, but is either empty or has just placeholders, and even when stuff starts appearing, it takes a long time before content stabilises (stops moving around) and becomes safe to click.