Ouch, that's a particularly poignant example. On the other hand, I am not sure that never upgrading is a viable alternative, unless the machine connected to you

Ouch, that's a particularly poignant example. On the other hand, I am not sure that never upgrading is a viable alternative, unless the machine connected to your picky hardware is air-gapped... My sense is that a fair amount of the UX obnoxiousness of all OS upgrades is a side-effect of not being able to reliably wake the machine when it's not in use - otherwise I'd rather have updates installed at 3AM, when there's no chance I'm doing something with my machine. Ubuntu is the least rude of the three in my experience, macOS in the middle, and Windows is the most abrupt, but something more like Chrome's silently upgrading all the time seems like it would be a better experience (until it broke everything, surprise).