Not discounting your experiences but I've upgraded several computers from 7/8x to 10 and had few to no issues. On my one laptop I think it originally tried to

Not discounting your experiences but I've upgraded several computers from 7/8x to 10 and had few to no issues. On my one laptop I think it originally tried to install the wrong touchpad driver through Windows Update but I solved this by disabling that update, reinstalling the correct driver, and then a week later, Windows Update sent me a newer version of the correct driver so it looks like that was fixed. The only real annoyance I had was that for each upgrade (I think I upgraded 5 PCs) I initially had to adjust a few settings where I had preferences other than the default (disable search bar, disable web results in search, make Explorer open on "This PC" instead of recent/frequent apps, disable OneDrive since I don't use it). Pretty annoying but takes 5 minutes and only needed to do it upon initial upgrade. Not saying these are positive things at all but I'm a realist and I've never installed an OS or major upgrade where I didn't have to spend 5-10 minutes setting things up "my way" on first boot. Otherwise, no BSODs, no broken applications, and a bit quicker and up to date than 7/8x. If anything, I was pleasantly surprised that an in-place Windows upgrade actually worked on all of my machines. In the past I always did clean installs but figured the free upgrade was enough incentive to give it a shot. If it didn't work, I could always clean install afterward but haven't had to.