Smart phones started the down fall in my opinion
They legitimised data harvesting, tracking, rapid updates, and bloat.
The features are useful if need them, but windows ideally would be much more modular.
If it makes you feel better, android is much worse, it really is. There is simple apps on there that require insane levels of space just to install (they get compiled and post compile all objects etc. are not deleted), and it has very little space management so temporary data tends to grow for infinity on each app without manual intervention.