[simulator5g]

The reason every developer makes their app open at startup, is because the Windows ecosystem doesn't have a good package manager. So every app needs to be its own package manager and check for updates on a timer. So they need to run all the time so they can run that timer.

[axus]

In theory the Windows Store will handle updates. In practice, I avoid the Windows Store version of applications. Also, you can't turn off app updating, only pause them for a time.

[simulator5g]

Windows Store could be great but it sucks. I haven't looked into winget yet but hopefully that takes off and doesn't suck.