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Naaah ... W10 is much better than both 8 and 8.1, IMO. 8/8.1 was a bigger fail even than Vista. Besides ... in w7 you do have FULL control over what updates are installed from MS and if you don't want them you can achieve that. You just need realize the fact that now and then MS push updates and service packs and stuff like that which indeed does change the switch of how your updates are installed. That means that if you set it ask you before it downloads and installs updates, some updates you install can change that switch and set it to have updates automatic. What you need to do is basically check every time before updating what the setting is set to. It happens only very seldom that MS release such updates but ... it happens. Other than that I don't see why one does not have control over updates in w7. As to w10 ... this thread has so far SORTA shown that we can have some control.
But yes, in general you are right. If the WANT to be asses they can achieve it and annoy the hell out of you.