Win7 was a great OS, but it's days are over. I just don't get the attachment to it now that it's reached the end-of-life phase of its existence.
It's not about "fear" of Win 10...and AFA the attachment to Win 7....see below.
No fear here either. I use at work. I don't like the GUI. I dont like the operations in re phone app style setup. I dont like the multiple layers it takes to get to the heart of system stuff i always change. I dont like the fact that if you are not on Pro with the latest update that you have to constantly turn off updates. I dont like the new web browser Edge. I dont like the fact that whenever it does update that you have to go back and check all your settings as it automatically resets everything to MS default.
IOW, i dont like a piece of software that has the cheek to think it knows better that i do as to how my system should be set up.
All those things are better executed on Win 7, with few exceptions.
Win 10 was designed more like a smartphone app...and if that's how you like your computer OS, great...but as someone who spent a good deal of time in IT work...I watched the hate for certain MS operating systems over they years, and it was all warranted.
From Windows ME...to Vista...to Win 8...and to Win 10...but even before that in some cases...and my usage goes all the way back to 3.0/3.1.
People generally didn't like those, including Win10, which most people got hooked on because it was free.
I leaned more toward the Business/Enterprise OS systems once we get past Win 95...first NT, then 2000...then I switched XP Pro...and finally to 7...and because I was doing IT, I could avoid being forced to use the stuff that was pushed out to the majority of end-users, who were stuck with having to upgrade to whatever was the next thing.
While everyone switched to Vista...I simple ignored it, and stayed with XP...even up to the point when we were pushing out Win7 and 8...I was still on XP.
The one day I had to get off XP at work because it was being blocked on the network.
With my DAWs...XP was great, but I wanted to move to 64 bit, and while there was a XP 64 bit version, it was total dog...so I finally switched to Win 7 a few years back, but now I'm comfortable with it, though I still get annoyed even by Win7 at times, like when simply trying to search for a file or open a folder of files...it just takes so much longer, regardless that the files are indexed. XP would pop folder open instantly...Win 7 seems to always need to re-index or whatever it's doing. Other than that though, the Win 7 GUI is pretty comfortable, like XP. Win 8 was/is annoying...and I find that 10 is no better.
I may still drop 10 on my spare laptop, just to mess with it...but I'm curious what MS plans to do for the next version, though I suspect it will be very 10-like, because again, they want to merge the smartphone app world into the PC world...which is kinda annoying...rather than letting users have a choice.