I support a couple dozen comps. For many, including my own, i have disabled the windows update service so i can manually update when required. But not for all depending upon our agreements of service.
Two clients lost all printers during January's update. Now i have remote access to the computers and the updates are disabled.
The MS asses have cost users with limited connections lots of overages.
and: the store updating is separate from windows updates. I had caught the store starting to download 1 gig on a client's computer. So i had to start opening it and changing the setting for every computer. A waste of time.
The new version is now defaulted to not auto updating.
And: updated 3 computers recently to the "Creative" update: game mode is ON.
I have also disabled a bunch of TaskScheduler tasks. The ONEdrive nag screen is started as a task. It might still happen even after One drive is uninstalled.
And so on.
There is still a need to tweek computers. No matter how fast they are, the imbeciles managing software development continue to add crap without permission doing stuff that is not needed.
A couple of years ago, at 1am on a wednesday, during a session, the defragger started. Lots of crap like that is run from the taskscheduler.