>>106999394
Yes it did, XP has an ugly Fisher Price UI, and it's still ridiculously easy to break, though better than the DOS-based Windows versions which had zero idiot-proof features.
CRT monitors are a huge hassle for people who are not tech savvy, going from CRT to LCD is like switching from an ICE car to electric for non-car people, it's just better for them in every way.
The internet, for those of us that had it, was dogshit slow, there was no convenient or cheap way to transfer files in 2001.
Much as I hate bloatware and telemetry, I'm not giving up my OLED screen laptop with a 4TB SSD full of high-quality .flac rips that connects to my monitor, 2.5GB ethernet and studio monitors that don't cost an arm and a leg, wireless peripherals and everything else over a single Thunderbolt 3 cable.