For enterprise users, this could be a major problem if there were things that could be forced past that block on updates.
If it were the result of a coding oversight, that bites, but so be it, those things happen.
If it was deliberate by Microsoft, people have reason to be angry. I have a hard time believing it was deliberate. But that could be my naivete.
Enterprise users shouldn’t be pointing their workstations to the interwebs for updates.
If they are, and this bites them, good. Might teach them a lesson.