[eschwartz]

I will be more than happy to listen to anything you say which has a factual basis.

Suggesting that linux uses sdxX-style mountpoints is embarrassingly wrong and literally requires just booting up any modern popular distro and using it for a bit.
(And is still irrelevant to the point of whether or not MS should switch to labeled mountpoints rather than randomizing drive letters.)

As for your distro without the labeled drives, which distro? Haven't you mentioned puppy linux before, which is emphatically not what a techno-unsavvy user is likely to install?
Try looking at e.g. the *buntus. Or anything that has e.g. Gnome, MATE, Unity, KDE, or Cinnamon installed as a DE -- because as I said, automounting is a baked-in feature. And they all use freedesktop standards.