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I spent over 40 years doing IT work, on 5 different generations of computers -- and totally agree with what you said!2 If anyone is not familiar with upgrading an OS they should let someone who knows how to do it,. IMO.
That said, there's something about the combination of "Free!" and computers that just causes folks to do dumb things. People who wouldn't even think about doing a brake job on their cars (lest they break something and have to pay an auto shop to fix it) have no hesitancy about jumping into something as risky as upgrading an operating system.
Microsoft is INVITING hundreds of millions of folks to do something they are (1) totally unqualified to do, and (2) have no simple path to recovery if anything goes wrong. And, they're doing it for free!! Folks are presuming that a company as big, experienced, and powerful as Microsoft is not going to allow folks to risk their PCs due to something as simple as a poorly-written Upgrade tool.
You're all saying that if, as a car dealer, I offer you a free ride in a new car, and you do that -- and you crash due to faulty brakes -- that's its YOUR fault you didn't check the brakes ahead of time! Who does that in a test drive of a new car?? You presume because it's being offered to you that it's not going to fail. Same is true of this Free Win10 Upgrade -- folks are RIGHT to presume it's not going to fail. I already said the tool can not anticipate everything, but if chkdsk and sfc SHOULD be done before the upgrade, then the TOOL should know to do this, not the user.