I'm currently content with Windows 7 and have no intentions of moving up to Windows 10 any time soon, if ever. Windows XP may work for you, but you even just admitted to how limited it is. Although that level of limitation may be good for YOU, it's not good for most people. I'm not saying that they should be on Windows 10, but they definitely need to not be on XP anymore.
Unfortunately, "because" isn't a reason. Neither is, "because M$ said so".
IDon't make assumptions that are not backed up by substantial facts, it's very unbecoming.
I also just wanted to note that XP was great back in it's day; and other than Windows 7 it was my favorite OS. However, it's passed it's time for most people.
Well, (at least to my way of thinking), speaking for, "most people", is a fairly broad assumption in it's own right. So, as the saying goes, "physician heal thyself".
Moving on, wanting to be the "first kid on the block" to have something, doesn't constitute a "need", in any way shape or form.
Confusing "want", with "need", has been a delusion perpetrated upon itself by the human "race", since we first began to write s*** down. The reason you justify that new Cadillac, is not because you want it, our "superior intellect" causes it to metamorphose into an overwhelming need.
As near as I can tell, the one big improvement moving from XP to its successors, is the installation of native SATA drivers. (Or AHCI, if you prefer).
As for this generations "needs", let's take the cell phone as an extreme example. People need cell phones so they'll have something to do while driving their cars. They also "need" cell phones, so they can call their "better halves" from the store so they can be told what to buy. I guess a pencil and piece of paper taken with you is too stone age for today's hipsters.
Then too, with a cell phone, you can join a website such as this one, and whimper ad infinitum, about the NSA, listening to your calls. You couldn't do that with an archaic landline, that's for sure.
But, but, but, "the cell phone saves time". For What? So you can get back to streaming video sooner? (The pastime formerly known as, "doing nothing").
Now that I think of it, as archaic and provincial as my views may seem, nor are they the views of "most people", I thank my lucky stars I have the wisdom, (and freedom from Alzheimer's), to hold on to them.