I know it should be the default, but if you turn off online searches for the Start Menu, it operates exactly how you'd expect it to on Windows 11.
Windows 11 is also a lot faster than 7 was on equivalent systems. Windows 7 would take minutes to boot.
Windows 7 never took minutes to boot on a reasonable computer.
Windows 7 had a good chance of being installed on spinning disks. I think even the cheapo Win11 systems at Walmart have SSDs now.