No, there is a good reason why they cannot be updated without issues and it has little to do with product activation or anything on Microsoft's part. A lot of

No, there is a good reason why they cannot be updated without issues and it has little to do with product activation or anything on Microsoft's part. A lot of these cracked copies of Windows were installed by cloning a master image, which was heavily customised using unofficial tools such as Dism++ and did so aggresively that the many of the underlying dependencies were left permanently damaged. The system will appear fine however many official patches could break it. A number of homegrown security suites actually blocked the installation of the relevant patch in March due to a correct if not misguided decision that this patch would make many cloned installations unbootable unless the user was capable of performing a manual repair process. Patching is never that simple in the real world. I've had to roll back a few patches myself after them made various production software fail to run (in one case, Microsoft Office). A number of streamers also had their line of work affected after a Windows 10 update borked certain aspects of sound capture - if they had any faith in the updating process they probably won't have any left after it gets in their line of work.