Yes.
I really am a Free Market kind of guy, but there are unpleasant consequences to such a system. Microsoft would see revenue dry up if they released a perfect OS which never needed to be upgraded. They would indeed be better off to trash such a thing.
Similarly, with government, if your schools are doing great, and if you ask for tax increase to make the schools even better, voters will not approve it. Hey, the schools are great, so who needs a tax increase?? BUT if the schools are terrible, the voters will always support a tax increase -- gotta fix those schools! It's an incentive for government employees to have awful schools. You make more money that way.
Don’t get me started on school consolidation especially in areas like WV.
‘A better education’ involves 1.5 hr bus rides one way, classes of 35-40 kids or more and windowless, soulless box buildings with soulless names like Southwest Franklin County Consolidated & Vocational Tech. Naturally, such large schools require 4 principals, 5 secretaries, etc. etc.
Of course, some classes are considerably smaller when a single school is compelled to offer special ed and other accommodations no matter how severe a child’s disabilities or how much cash must be spent on their individual cases. Teachers are hired by the truckload for 4:1, even 2:1 ratios in those instances.
The final insult: cherished, often historical nicknames are jettisoned in favor of safe PC mascots, invariably animals who can’t file a grievance. Cue a parade of Eagles, Jaguars, Panthers, Hawks, etc. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
If MS were a car manufacturer using design reasoning they do developing new OS they would put the steering wheel in a different seating each new model as well as put the brake and accelerator elsewhere for the sole sake of calling it a change. They would cease to exist very quickly. Long time ago MS bought or or sued competition out of existence and have been happy to produce inferior products ever since. W/XP will probably go down as their peak product in efficiency and ease of use. WINDERS ME, 8, 10, and ones to follow if any as being their very worse.