Would Windows be less like a phone if we had remained in the style of XP and just improved it in increments?

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No, windows would still be a terrible operating system. It only exists because Microsoft's Unix license was in limbo after the government broke up AT&T/Bell Labs. It is an absolute trainwreck of instability, and due to the need for backwards compatibility it always will be.