24H2 was pretty bad at launch, but the rollout was very slow so very few people ran into issues. But if they did, you'll be damn sure they're gonna yell about it .

Updates have broken far more things for me than anything else.

Every update cycle I cringe to see what we have to mitigate.

I thank Microsoft from my job security, I'd have far less to do without their updates regularly breaking stuff.

Super anecdotal, but I've seen a few instances of those in my time as sysadmin.

Whether it was just failed or malfunctioning updates, I can't tell, but I've had to deal with Windows not starting correctly after automatic updates multiple times.

Then there was the whole bricked HP laptop story recently, where automatic updates just randomly killed a lot of systems. We have multiple HP laptops in the company, though none were affected, but I can't say I wasn't sweating a little bit those days.

i've had more issues with forced updates from pc manufacturers--whether via their own update mechanism or through windows update, including bad bios updates that literally bricks a pc to the point a board swap is needed.

windows ones almost always 'install' correctly.. it's often more a question 'why tf do i want this shit?'

the 'automatic' updates should strictly be security patches and critical non-security bug fixes. new and substantially-changed features should be optional or deferred to.. ya know.. the big updates each year called 'feature updates', and not rammed down users' throats every month.