Remember when letting your Windows system get automatic patches every month was nothing to worry about? I do. Good times.
I disagree with that statement. Various Windows upgrades/updates have created problems going back to 95 and 98. Numerous times, upgrades have killed log-ins for some brands of computers/laptops. MS updates have always been iffy. That is why I turned them off with XP and later with Win7. That is why I have still not fully jumped onto the Win10 version -- where updates cannot be turned off. Even with Win7 updates turned off, emergency/critical updates still happen and numerous times I have had to resort to a System Restore just to get Win7 running.
I do have a Win10 tablet. (I only use it to listen to radio streams, because it is just too frustrating to use for 'real' computing.) Sometimes it will upgrade once a week. Other times it will upgrade 2 to 4 times in a 24-hour period. The problem is that with frequent upgrades, any open programs are automatically closed and the tablet stalls out. I have to hold the ON/OFF button to shut it down and then press and hold again for it to start up from scratch.
A Windows-11 might be a saving grace for MS, because 10 is about a bad as the ole VISTA and Win8.