Mark Qvist, the original developer of Reticulum, is suffering from AI psychosis. He fully trusts his chatbot to develop software and create documentation for him. You are seeing the result.

Rich and powerful people get cancer all the time. They want a cure, but they are too stupid to understand how science works.

That is true. The upcoming Cosmic DE, however, can be customised to look more Windows-like I believe.

Pop!_OS has an option to enable automatic updates.