>Not sure what the adoption rate will be. From my reading, about 90 percent of the hardware today will not run Win11 (has to be fairly current generation CPUs - last few years). So my guess is that it will not be widely adopted as it will require purchasing new hardware.
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>I for one do not want to purchase a new system. My current system works very well on Win10. The feature list of Win11 does not have any features that I would "have to have". So for me right now it is a no-go.

I'm in a similar situation. I'm not getting too worked up about it right now, things are subject to change.

Whether deliberately or not, Microsoft has positioned themselves to take advantage of a classic psychological ploy. I imagine one goal with a "new" OS version is to not have to support old hardware; it's politically infeasible to do that via a Win10 feature update. Maybe their actual goal is to deprecate 90% of existing machines. But if it's, say, 50% then later on they can relax the requirements and they appear "generous".

This is like retail MSRPs vs actual selling prices.