fair enough.They're objectively worse than they've ever been, with a particular string of bad ones in the 180x's. AskWoody, Mary Jo Foley, Thurrott - even the pro-MS bloggers are no longer ignoring it. Ever heard of Susan Bradley, aka "The Patch Lady"? She penned an excellent open letter to MS that - with no frills or bias or axe to grind beyond being a longtime expert on the subject area: https://www.computerworld.com/artic...microsoft-management-re-windows-updating.html
Without backlash, MS would have no reason to fix the problems they've created any faster than they are.