"Hey let's change the game from the way it's been for AGES to this nonsense here!" "Oh no actually let's change it again — not back to the way it was nevermind the disappearing population — but to an entirely new nonsense!"
IME this kind of bitching is what kills zones. People no doubt have a shitload of FUN in that base. Sometimes it's not your turn, that should make it more fun when it is.
7 is tolerable (compared to other versions of Windows) once you install Classic Shell, disable Aero and do a few other things. It's no Unix DE, though, and the price is certainly wrong.