Yeah, I noticed the most recent Insider Preview is 10.0.22000, one of my users used it and I'm like what's that and go and look it up and I see it's the win11 preview so one can in fact check it out fairly painlessly. Not sure I'm about to though.
Well I don't think that they will step pack, officially. But having the today situation after the official release is a possibility. They used to care of the majority of the user base, who never look outside the fence, leaving the rogue ones relatively free. After all it's MS not Apple Not in the exactly same boat. Here the broadcasters are forced to go from DVB-T to DVB-T2 starting from September (which means SD programs will be broadcasted in MP4/H264 like the actual HDTV ones), and that's fine for WMC Then, in phase 2, SD and HD channels will be moved to HEVC/H265 and the 800MHz spectrum will be released to 5G phones so there will be no room left for the old MPEG2 channels. Phase 2 will happen in 2022, the starting month will vary depending the region but for the end of the year everything will be on the new codec. I use servers and/or LTSB/LTSC since 2015, so called feature updates are are not annoying me already.