This kind of thing is exactly the reason I've gradually booted less and less into Windows on my media PC, to the point I'm using Linux 99% of the time. MS prod

This kind of thing is exactly the reason I've gradually booted less and less into Windows on my media PC, to the point I'm using Linux 99% of the time. MS products always seem to prioritize corporate interests at the expense of user experience. To give an example, I got a graphics card with ray tracing capabilities, and I wanted to try the Minecraft RTX beta to see what this ray tracing thing was all about. In order to install it, I needed to create an account in this special XBox program, and then I had to delete and re-install the Minecraft application several times in order for the windows store to install the correct version. I think I rebooted the entire computer at least 3 times in the process. And on reboot, after signing up for this "insider" program, I got a new prompt about sending my usage data back to MS. Once I did get it installed, I found that the Minecraft home-screen is now a garish display designed to put micro-transactions in front of you, to the point I had to hunt a bit for how to start a new game. After all of this the RTX portion turned out to be a half-finished mess, and I had to read a tutorial online to figure out how to even access RTX content. So basically the user experience I had, in trying to play a game for children, felt akin to being forced to walk down a dark alley and shaken down by MS in order to access the content I wanted. Honestly it's part of the reason I'm not a big fan of VSCode. The "suggested" popup feature just seems like it follows this trend of MS finding ways to put content in front of the user without asking, and I'm just not confident it's not going to be abused in the future to up-sell me on Azure services or something.