What is the reason for moving the start button to the middle in Windows 11?

The movement of the "start button" from the corner to the middle seems to be so much hated that it was impossible for me to find any justification for it in a short search, because all the results were clogged by tutorials about how to move it back to the corner.

Having it in a corner is the best place when using a mouse, because it requires less precise aiming, the cursor can be immediately dragged to the corner without even looking. I would guess having the most used button in the center of the taskbar instead of the corner might be marginally useful for touch-only devices, but are there other serious reasons for placing it there? A cynic might say that they changed it for a misguided marketing reasons so that it "feels different", but there is surely more to it than this.