Y don't like??

1. You know there's "All Apps" at the bottom of the start menu? You can definitely see all apps there, including desktop apps
2. Plus, you can click on the letter and jump directly to the group of apps? Say, you want to get Skype, click on any letter, select S and boom, all apps starts with letter S is there right in front of your eyes...
3. If that doesn't work for you, I'm not sure why you really bother to look at lines of application list looking for small items on the menu. The way I do it since Win7 is directly type the application that I want to launch so that the menu will search for me. This is still working on Win10 and it is much faster than both of the method I described above, even faster than looking for pinned apps at times... Which is why I don't really bother with Win8 style start screen because the way I use start menu hasn't changed.

Just few tips. Not necessarily going to work for you, probably you have even already try it...