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This might be a bad take but I personally think Windows 11 is not that bad. If you are going to have some Windows boxes kicking around you should run Windows 11.
It may depend on when you purchased, but my win11 pro USB I purchased still has the ability to skip the MS account creation with OOBE /bypassnro.
I think they made the timing you had to run this and reboot trickier though because too soon into the setup or too late and it will not work.
You also have to straight up yank the Ethernet cable at some point.
The pro version has the ability to create a local user for the purpose of domain joining
Not bad is not a reason for people to upgrade. Something must be good, otherwise why would you. And there are couple of problems with Windows 11 like the bloat, less optimized on old hardware (if it runs) and all the headlines and talk about Microsoft integrating an Ai that scans everything you do. Plus the usual compatibility issues with updates and data collection that you can't turn off. In the end, its just annoying for people to upgrade to Win 11, without any benefits to them, but the risk of new problems and incompatibility.
However if I were a Possibly windows user who does not want to use anything else than Windows, then there is no question: upgrade is a must, because 10 stop getting support. Its as simple as that, provided the hardware can run it.