He defends using Windows 11 for testing the Intel 12th Gen because it is necessary for proper performance on the new architecture.

“there's a there's a couple of criticisms that were leveled at us over the way that we evaluated the core i9 12900k one of them was that we used windows 11 for our testing and we did provide some of the rationale in the video for why we used windows 11 and the reason was that windows 11 has an update”