If one’s building a PC him/herself right now, yes, it might be worth looking into what Windows 11 does with Alder Lake that Windows 10 doesn’t (we’re still waiting for the first reviews and comparisons on that). On AMD there’s no such issue now, but there might be in the future.

To be honest, if I were in that position — I am not since I built an AMD PC in January and I’m perfectly happy with it for all of 2022, even 2023 with a better graphics card — I’d still install Windows 10 now on the new build and upgrade at some point in the future when all of Windows 11’s issues and missing features are addressed. It’s not that I’d be missing out on THAT much performance anyway.

There’s, of course, a discussion to be had about whether Microsoft could backport e.g. the new Windows 11 scheduler to Windows 10 in order for the latter to also take advantage of the Alder Lake big cores/small cores architecture but… yeah. Fat chance of that happening.

I agree that Windows 10 will be with us for a LONG while. Surely much longer than Microsoft would like to (October 2025). The reason is obvious: there are SO MANY perfectly capable, even extremely powerful, PCs out there that do not “qualify” for Windows 11 but can hold their own in all kinds of use cases. If nothing else, I feel that we’re heading for another Windows 7 situation, where consumers will be holding on to Windows 10 PCs past 2025 despite the lack of security updates. Oh, the fun we’ll have.