[ethernetsalad]

Personally, and I imagine for other people, it's more just having the ability to choose taken away.

I think for the average consumer, the system is fine but for power users or developers, it just sucks having that control taken away.

From what I understand, there have been a lot of cases where prompts are easy to overlook and time out, restarting a users computer for updates while in the middle of working.

That said, it looks like the upcoming creators update will allow you to choose the time of restarts but not what updates you receive. If you could choose your updates, this file explorer thing wouldn't probably be as big of an issue since you could just opt not to install whichever update adds it.

Of course, future updates might/probably would require it and eventually you might have to but it just feels shittier than paying for the OS outright and having control to accept or deny whatever you like.

[chrisper]

In the upcoming creator's update, you can disable updates for 31 days. However, it says security updates are still being installed. So not exactly sure how it is going to work.

[discreditable]

It may be referring to feature upgrades rather than the monthly updates.