There's an old reference... No duped as in a person who has been fooled. You would have had to have fallen for the idea that windows 11 was somehow a good idea.
Like with Win7 working just fine, why upgrade to 8? Why upgrade to 10? Nevermind 11... It was clear the direction they were pushing, more online, connected, more software as a service. As they continued that trend the only rational move was to not upgrade.