I recently watched my dad install windows 11 (his sixth or so time). It took him over an hour of typing commands into the terminal and navigating through 50 different menus to install windows and disable all the shit that comes with it, all on supported hardware. I don't understand how people justify this when linux takes 10 minutes to install and doesn't come filled with ads and telemetry.
They aren't dropping regional prices but instead switching them to USD. They made new LATAM-USD and MENA-USD regions that now include Argentina and Turkey along with 25 other countries that didn't have regional pricing before