I think I understand. You want to use the prior IE version’s user interfaces but still be able to use the modern web.
Given that IE is implemented in COM for use in any application (with backwards compatibility), this might be possible on paper. However, I highly suspect that it would never work properly anyway, and the last IE is already deprecated and not very well supported by web developers.
So, I think the “better value” is to rely on theming. For example @veselcraft has a Pale Moon IE theme:
I’m sure you can find others too where theming is an option.
Down the same path but less immersive, I made a variant of the IE3 rings for a Firefox background: