I started to respond to this but then I realized you're just twisting things to fit your world view. Microsoft isn't removing for breaking their UI to trick people into their walled garden. Yes they'd like the Store to be a success but making advanced networking features difficult to surface by migrating from GDI to Modern UI elements isn't part of that master plan.

You're sighting what you see as shortcomings in their battery status indicator as a regress when what you're asking for has never been a feature in Windows.

I don't deny that you've had some issues with Windows but it sounds like a lot of your objects are based on personal beliefs than actual problems.