Yeah that's not bad looking at all. What happened to UI styling and the theming engine in 8 was a travesty. It was so ugly and because the theming engine had been gutted, the user couldn't even fix it with third party visual styles.

That's maybe 11's single saving grace: it course corrected and Fluent actually looks pretty good. If only the rest weren't awful.

Windows 11 is inoffensive where Windows 8 was ugly. But Windows 8's visual style was more functional. Windows had borders. Menus and dialogs had contrast and shadows. The focused window was obvious.

See also: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_8_build_8172

Eh, i prefer the round corners in 7. Those windows look like they'll cut and bleed your fingers if you touch their edges :-P

To be fair, you would cut yourself and bleed in betas.