I serve lotsa untechy people who are annoyed by these updates for reasons as practical as “this PC does not follow my command to wake up or shut down immediately”. Sometimes they have older hardware that struggles with it (like if they have a HDD for a system drive as the worst case), sometimes they shut it down mid update being jn a hurry, they all do want their machine to function as a VHS player that is persistent between boots and just works. You are right that most people don’t dance around our ideological campfires, that they don’t understand the discourse around frequent updates at all, but as end users they get a frustrating expirience that often my clients shrug when I mention Windows Update for they already encountered at least one case of it randomly popping up when they were unprepared and didn’t want it.

Yet, I agree that it is insignificant for Microsoft, as they kept it that way even for pro users for more than a decade.

It is a different topic than my initial argument but I don’t mind to explore that branch.