If you read the article, you'd know that he is mainly talking about the Win-XP and earlier era. There is a gap there of the 'golden years' of e.g. Win 7 and 10, before the LLMs but after Windows (Loboto)ME.

And computer software is not a linear track, so regression is not going to result in the same 'bads' that existed back then, it's resulting in new ones, some of which are better,and some which are worse. It's not an all-or-nothing state.