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Well said!, I couldn't put it any better myself.
I am soooo with you on this. Without regular backups, it's like being in the middle of the ocean without a compass and also not having a clue about the weather forecast. Something bad is bound to happen sooner or later, as we often say: when disaster strikes... I have two paid versions of backup softwares MR & EaseUS ToDo, just in case one of them gets "funky" and this usually happens when you need it the most. On top of that, I apply religiously the 3. 2. 1 principle of backing up
I also have over 250+ apps/utilities running on 1903 without any problems at all. Some are from the Windows 95 era. The only problem I have had after updating to 1903 was my auto updates stopped and a forum member steered me to the proper registry fix. I also have another system with about 10 apps on it and it also performs flawlessly with 1903.
Did the audio change in this update intend to fix Forza games on XFI's?
Consider yourself fortunate. I was like you until KB4515384 which screwed up my Start Menu, and most of the icon actions on the Taskbar. Nothing I found fixed it so I had to uninstall it. People do a clean install and have problems so it isn't what they do, it's some combination of hardware and perhaps firmware but it's primarily Microsoft as these same systems worked okay with a previous build.
The OS is so complex, changing a single line of code can have drastic, unexpected results, The Butterfly Effect. So every fix they make has the significant possibility of breaking something else. All Operating Systems face this problem, be it Windows, Linux, UNIX or further back to OS/2 or DOS. That's why System Test was such a big deal in the main frame world and OS/2 and Windows until Microsoft decided they could pass that on to the Insiders. We're (Insiders) a large, diverse test bed but don't do the things a dedicated system test organization would do, especially in the area of regression testing.
Getting off my soapbox now ...
Don't worry- MS is very concerned your Start Menu suffered- you're not alone according to this...
Microsoft investigating issue that breaks Start Menu and search in cumulative update KB4515384 | Windows Central
One user I was working with even found they couldn't uninstall the update..!
And make of this what you will- anticipating the above?
Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4515384 Not Breaking Down the Start Menu