Windows updates can be so big that sometimes they seem to arrive as "This time I think we got it right". Sometimes they arrive as "I think we just broke something, sorry but too bad". I guess there is just so much baggage in Windows that it constantly needs the patch treatment constantly.
Not a fan of mandatory updates. Had a battle with the latest Google Chrome on MacOSX to disable it (It's not my preferred browser but it's the only thing that works for reading my ISP usage). Why, when I only use Google Chrome a couple of times a month to check a site I care very little about.
still trying to get my head round systemd, but that's MY problem
Once you start developing in it you will be converted.