I’ve 1903 on all three of my laptops. All work just fine. I really like this edition.
We have been running 1903 on all of our Windows 10 computers for the past couple of months. The initial upgrade actually fixed a couple of issues that I was having on one of them and gave me a little trouble on another. The update that borked my laptop the other day was intended to be a minor fix to 1903. The difficulties that it is causing people seems to be related to its replacing some drivers to generic Microsoft versions from drivers that were released by parts manufacturers. This was no doubt to address incompatibilities that some people were experiencing with 1903.
Many times later versions of drivers even the ones released by manufacturers are not as good as the earlier versions. This is because the cheapest way to eliminate a problem people are having is to take away the feature that is being complained about rather than fixing it.
One example is one of the drivers that this update replaced on my laptop, the Synaptics touchpad driver. Synaptics took away many of the options available in earlier versions of the drivers for my laptop. I do not know the reason why but it likely was in response to customers who were having difficulties and generating call volume and complaints at support centers. The easiest way to eliminate this is to just take away many of the options that were once available.
In the current situation with the 1903 update Microsoft has gotten a lot of criticism over problems people have been having. Many of the complaint were likely determined to be due to drivers which had incompatibilities. Microsoft's solution appears to have been to “update” people's drivers with generic versions that do not have the options available that may have been causing issues for some people. In other words they chose the big hammer to "fix" the problem.