I truly believe it's 75% the name. If the changes in W11 (Electron Start button, tabbed File Explorer, new context menu, etc.) were just included over a few semi-annual channel Windows 10 updates then the push back would be a lot less. All of the most annoying stuff, like telemetry and Copilot advertisements were part of the latest Windows 10 releases anyway.

The hardware support is also a big issue, but I don't know how many people complaining so vocally don't have computers new enough to run without any kind of bypass.

I don't know; My privat computer is still good enough for what I use it for, but it's too old according to Microsoft.

At work, the most annoying thing was the ads, but after disabling then, WSL works just as fine on W11 as W10.

I simply fail to see any benefit of upgrading - apart from security patches.