My machine went into a boot loop and I had to clear CMOS to boot again.

I wonder how many people without the resources to fix a problem like that easily are going to end up without computers for an extended period of time because of this.

Im not sure the software center being half baked is even the real problem.

One of the nice things about Windows is that you dont need a central, curated, repository for software. You can google the thing you want and just download an msi/exe of the latest stable version and, 99.9% of the time, leading back to your first point, it will just work.