If you get everything out if those 3.5” / 5.25” bays you might just be able to do a clever rotation to get the card into place

They’ve improved nothing at all in that time

A huge chunk of my work used to be fixing things after a client’s Windows OS went tits-up after an update for seemingly no reason.

These days, those cases are incredibly rare and when they happen there’s usually an underlying hardware condition.

Windows has been able to roll back botched updates for about 10 years now. I’d say that qualifies as an improvement.