(Writing this from a Linux laptop:) If you pay for Win10 enough, you get a Pro version without all this baloney, without forced updates and reboots, etc. An extra expense comparable to buying two or three large pizzas.
Still this extra expense turns away a huge number of customers :(
The telemetry is still there. And it's still a lot more pervasive than whatever Chrome does. (So, if you're running Firefox in Windows 10 or 11 and think you're preserving your privacy, think again.)
What the point of paying, when even a retail copy of the most common commercial OS still has ads for frickin' Candy Crush in the start menu? Not to mention an amount of telemetry that dwarfs what's described in OP's comic by multiple orders of magnitude? The best software is for free these days, any paid support is completely voluntary. Commercial software should be treated as abusive spyware unless it can prove otherwise.