Another pain point is Explorer, Windows’ file manager. It takes longer to load than a file manager should

This drives me bananas anytime I have to interact with Windows. When I open my file manager on my own PCs, it'll be rendered and ready to go between the clicking of the button and the animation of it opening. It takes under 300ms.

On my Windows 11 work PC, I've had it take well over five seconds before I can actually do something. Given how handling files is a hella common task, I'm surprised no one at Microsoft has fixed this just from having to deal with it on a daily basis. I sure as hell couldn't.