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That sucks, yea I've broken windows by changes I've made as well, never to the extent that I've had to reinstall though, but I've definitely broke the boot system making changes or have had to uninstall updates for some changes. That being said, the recovery menu uses a whole separate image, usually on it's own partition, so I'm surprised changing the font on your System was even able to break recovery, that's impressive.
as for UI, I give a pass to anything that is marked as deprecated as those are decommissioned, but yea if you include the windows 7 interfaces that were never upgraded to the new unified UI design, I agree with you. That or if you include third party software, but I don't feel that's a fair comparison.
UX wise? I havent noticed any of that. The most I've noticed are that context menus are basically useless now as they remove or moved the pieces that I always used, so moreorless I just use keyboard shortcuts for everything when on windows. A common complaint I have on the new unified settings area is how much it doesn't look like the older stuff. The menus lack features present in the old system, and if the settings do exist, they are in a different area. With control panel I used to be able to access my settings all in one spot. Now I can look for a specific setting and have to look in three different places for it.