Seems like it's 50% trying to limit virus viability by preventing already patched viruses from remaining effective (e.g. users are idiots) and 50% messing over people who try to pirate non-enterprise versions of Windows 10 with stealth windows genuine advantage DRM patches.
So 50% users are idiots other 50% users are even bigger idiots, and the percentage of windows users that actually knows how to use a computer is insignificant enough to not even warrant a hidden checkbox to disable the automatic updates.
Seems like it's 50% trying to limit virus viability by preventing already patched viruses from remaining effective (e.g. users are idiots) and 50% messing over people who try to pirate non-enterprise versions of Windows 10 with stealth windows genuine advantage DRM patches.
So 50% users are idiots other 50% users are even bigger idiots, and the percentage of windows users that actually knows how to use a computer is insignificant enough to not even warrant a hidden checkbox to disable the automatic updates.