>the move to windows being a service has been a disaster.

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?