Oh, and by the way, do you know what a Servicing Branch is?
Do you know what LTSB--Long Term Servicing Branch--does for the Enterprise?
It allows Business customers to opt out of automatic updates and get and deploy updates through WSUS. Same as it always has done.
IT departments have the necessarily skilled people to ensure proper updates are managed and applied. For years Microsoft has been sued and berated for various security hacks and other code vulnerabilities BECAUSE no one applied the update that correctly addressed it/closed the hole, except for those Enterprises that had staff who knew how important it was to do so--and do it quickly, before too many script kiddies got their hands on the code.
BUT ignorant consumers--such as you--turned off updates because they heard from a guy who had a friend who knew someone who had a Microsoft update destroy their system. This caused FAR, FAR more problems than the near-mythological system destroying update. And when such an unlikely update is applied and does do damage, it is almost always because the system is configured incorrectly anyways.
So now these updates are just going to be done, so they cannot be ignored and have some script kiddie destroy the system...
Still, there are many ways to turn them off--and all the other scary things you mentioned.
opt out is only for those with Enterprise version of W10. Small businesses don’t use Enterprise, they use W10 Pro, which does not have opt out, nor do W10 Pro users have access to update descriptions like Enterprise does.
Gotta love Microsoft pointlessly keeping that info secret from their biz and consumer customers. Why? Because they can. At least for now. Since they’re rapidly losing the consumer market and more slowly losing the business market.