You are wrong on many points.
It's much deeper than "Skin and fresh coat of paint"
4GB "Just for OS" is not true either, at true idle with no 3rd party SW running it uses barely 2.1GB of RAM out of my 16GB. versions for small devices may use even less.
It's also not "Ryzen3" limit, Ryzen3 refers to number of cores, not generation. Ryzen generation is refereed by it's core designation. Zen(1) first gen,only one excluded, Zen+, Zen2 and Zen3 are all cleared because of added security, not performance.
Will not be "Forced" to upgrade, at least not for next 4-5 years for expected life of W10. There are millions of PCs with W7 and even XP still happily running.
Those cheap licenses are not completely legal, just tolerated by MS, if MS was really bad, they would have stomped on that practice long time ago. Upgrade to W11 is free so there's nothing to pay if you already have compatible(or not) hardware and OS. W10 can still be upgraded to from W7 and all chances are W11 too although HW that came with such machines may be not supported. @
mart1981
Edge and Store APPs are not pushed any more than on previous windows, any half decent browser can take over without any problems.