What are you even talking about?
This policy is new to Windows 10 and was introduced in response to the botnet problem.
The fact is that people disabled automatic updates in past versions of Windows which lead to the botnet problems because unpatched Windows machines were easy targets.
People also failed to reup their AV software so Microsoft introduced Windows Defender which is now free on Windows 10.
People also would install exes blindly so Microsoft introduced UAC.
About people seeing the nag popup and following whatever "howto" to disable it they find.
Not less important, people running warez Windows (which, as a simple fact, are a majority outside US and Western Europe) are afraid that the next update will can their hack.
To somebody not computer literate "an update" is just something that makes their computer slow, and reboots it for update just in time before somebody's project deadline :)
People got so conditioned over the years by that, that they download one of countless "update disablers" as a knee jerk reaction to anything resembling update popup now.
And that's why 9 out of 10 people turn them off for good.
And because of people not installing security updates because of that, Windows is such attractive target as a botnet breeding ground.