Windows 10 had it, but Microsoft says it’s never coming back to Windows 11 because you’d only mess up your taskbar by dragging it

Windows 11’s taskbar can finally go to the top, left, or right of the screen, but only through Settings, as you still can’t drag it there like in Windows 10. Microsoft says that’s by design. Diego Baca, Microsoft’s Vice President of Design for Windows, says dragging the taskbar caused accidental movements, people rarely change its position anyway, and leaving drag-to-move out was a deliberate choice.

I understand the argument here, and the history of the Windows 11 taskbar is in his favour. But a lone developer has already added drag-to-move on top of Windows 11’s new taskbar positions, and Baca himself had a working prototype of a Windows 11 feature within a day with the help of AI.

So why not give the users what they want? Well, there are…