No, it hasn't, it's been quite the opposite. The company is more profitable than ever, so much that now instead of saying "FAANG", people are saying "MAANG" or "GAMMA" or some variation.
>I swear task manager lists some new useless daemon taking 3% of cpu after every update
What's wrong with that? Microsoft isn't paying your power bill, you are. It's not their problem. Are you going to stop using Windows because it's slow and hogging the CPU to show you ads in the home screen?
These innovations are why Microsoft is such a profitable powerhouse. Maybe Microsoft can install a cryptominer to run on your PC when it is idle and send the money back to Microsoft. It would help pay for the cost of all the improvements Microsoft is always making to Windows. The possibilities are endless.
I think thats what “antimalware service executable” is