i hate OldNewExplorer so much, it made me reinstall windows twice and it's so buggy
its a combo taskbar + start menu + file explorer + basically every win32 app
and its barely janky either
id say try it, you’ve got ages (i think like 100 days)
as someone who uses startallback on a daily basis, i agree, the windows 7-era start menu is sooooo much better to use than the stock windows 11 one