Telemetry, I think most people (given a choice) would opt-out but OK. What I hate are all the dark-patterns, registry keys and obscure processes that you have

Telemetry, I think most people (given a choice) would opt-out but OK. What I hate are all the dark-patterns, registry keys and obscure processes that you have to locate to perform the opt-out (and even don't clearly know they are disabled). I'm a bit sick of fighting the OS that I purchased to make my life easier. Even published Group Policy seems like an arms race, every time a new Windows 10 release there are a crap-ton of new telemetry settings. And why-oh-why does Windows Server have the XBox client installed? Windows is becoming the weakest part of the Microsoft stack.