Use Vivetool to force enable the new Start menu and related features on your Windows 11 system and avoid the gradual rollout ...

You can change the Start menu to any custom color you want, but that will, by default, change the Taskbar to the same color.

So, there are probably 10s of millions of Windows 8 users. Just not 60 million. Millions of people miss the Start menu enough to have taken the time and done something about it. And then let's not ...