I am the same way. When I hear people talk about the start screen or start menu I have to ask them what the hell they are doing searching for their programs. Like you said, window key, start to type the name and enter. and the program is launched. for anything that I need every day I have pined to the task bar. I might see the start menu for about 15 seconds combined for an entire day. If people are searching through their start menu still for programs I consider that using the pc incorrectly. But that could just be me.
Personally, searching for stuff is a nuisance -- it means I have to move my hands to/from the mouse to the keyboard, and I generally use the mouse for 99% of operations unless I am actually typing something. I also typically have everything I use segregated out by functionality of the program, so I can drill down to it much faster than I can type in the name of it. This is especially true for stuff I don't use all that often -- where I may remember what it DOES but have no clue as to the name of the program (which makes search useless). Stuff I use every day I keep in Quick Launch (yes, QL, I don't pin stuff to the taskbar -- when I click on something, it is because I want another instance of it to launch, I don't want the icon to behave differently because it is already running). I find the Windows 10 Start Menu and Start Screen totally obnoxious and annoying -- which is why I keep Classic Shell installed.