Windows updates are slow as fuck, take forever to download, then forever to install, take your CPU, hog your storage and require multiple boots and MUST be finished after started.
On everyLinux distro I've used, updates were single command/click at most, downloaded in the background, cleaned up from storage automatically, never used much CPU and rarely 'required' reboot.
Yes my Linux distro is updated twice a week and Windows was deleted after being out of ~updates~ use for 6 months, why do you ask?
That's also my choice. If I don't service my car every year then no-one comes to take it away from me and do the servicing anyway.
And sure, the average person won't make sensible decisions for their own good about updates, so forcing them can be a reasonable default, but it should still be possible to override those settings. It's my computer.
As for choosing when to do it, maybe that's possible (although it's not been my experience tbh) but that all falls apart when, for example, an aged relative switches on their computer once a month to do one specific simple task and ends up having to wait two hours while their bargain basement machine grinds to a halt force-updating itself because it's past the update grace period.
