This is all strictly in my experience ... but anecdotally, colleagues and friends have similar experiences.
BSOD tended to be more in those halcyon days of a very diverse and disparate OEM ecosystem ... similar to what we have with Android nowadays. But the Dells of the world are pretty solid with both stability and support these days. This is of course not to mention the first party stuff (surface et al).
Bloatware ... this was another thing that was exacerbated by the runaway OEM ecosystem. It was the wild west, and they loaded anything and everything on that hardware. Things are a lot more streamlined these days IMO.
As for updates ... with the latest windows, you can schedule when the update happens. So just tell your PC to update when you're sleeping when the notification pops up. Updates will always be a thing, but this makes it easy to work around.
I've been running the same non-BigOEM Win7 laptop at home for nearly 7 years now. Don't think I've seen a single BSOD in all that time. Windows/PC definitely has its annoyances, but I think this one is Of The Past now.
The 2007-vintage MBP that preceded it suffered DVD drive failure, incurable sleep mode apnea, and at one point a meltdown that needed a complete motherboard replacement. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I was not at all inclined to try another one.
I don't know ... maybe I reboot more often than you do? While I've definitely been annoyed by this in the past ... I feel like it hasn't happened or been a problem for a long while for me.
BSOD tended to be more in those halcyon days of a very diverse and disparate OEM ecosystem ... similar to what we have with Android nowadays. But the Dells of the world are pretty solid with both stability and support these days. This is of course not to mention the first party stuff (surface et al).
Bloatware ... this was another thing that was exacerbated by the runaway OEM ecosystem. It was the wild west, and they loaded anything and everything on that hardware. Things are a lot more streamlined these days IMO.
As for updates ... with the latest windows, you can schedule when the update happens. So just tell your PC to update when you're sleeping when the notification pops up. Updates will always be a thing, but this makes it easy to work around.
And coming from a mac background, make sure you take a look at WSL (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about)