Never had any problems with updates (and my work computer has no graphic card except for the integrated chipset in the CPU).

> Generally, Windows 10 seems to take control of configuring the operating system away from the user

That's exactly what I wanted, I'm tired of spending hours to get a working setup.

> while adding a bunch of "telemetry" and "application monitoring".

I filter outgoing traffic on my router, so not really a problem.