the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

This is a bug, not enshittification. How would they profit from that?

Also some insects dissolve in their cocoons to a handful of cells and yet still maintain memories from their larva stage

Germany is one of the countries against the current chat surveillance proposal, so at least we have that going for us (which is nice)

Macs are not really what I think of when reading “middle of the road linux”

They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today.

Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s

I get why they do it though - any change to win10 needs testing and so on and might not be welcomed by the user base. You can always download a free (as in freedom) image editor, some are even on the Microsoft Store. Be glad they did not backport all the bad sides of win11…

at least in Germany there is an inspection…

It does have it. But you have to invoke it with ADB.