Hell no. There's already a taskbar --- although that's another thing they've managed to screw up in Win11.

I have that on Windows 10 for all applications instead of just Explorer: https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

Reminds me of the Haiku window manager a little[1]

1. https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html

Of course there are many (many) alternatives, Norton Commander being one of the first.

I work in IT (for many, many years).. support hundreds of computers, and don't have the luxury of configuring each to my liking. I have to use the tools that are available and learned a long time ago to make due with with Windows explorer.