The OS vendor gets to run classification on all of your pictures, documents, and software.

Not on Linux

A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.

No, just basic and regular optimization. There are plenty of talented devs with YouTube channels that have shown that most AAA games are horrendously optimized, and in some cases can see 2x or even 3x+ performance gains with proper optimization.

Well, then Microsoft should stop shoving AI slop into all its products. Windows Agentic AI Slop is something no one asked for.

This is an explanation on why it never gets fixed.

The technical debt would be the additional damage being done to the rest of the house each time it rains.