If 5 years after release, Windows 10's "active hours" setting wasn't still braindead, I would be more inclined to cut them some slack. But it still hasn't occur

If 5 years after release, Windows 10's "active hours" setting wasn't still braindead, I would be more inclined to cut them some slack. But it still hasn't occurred to anyone at Microsoft that the hours I need my home computer to be functional might not be the same on a Wednesday and a Saturday. Even with working from home during COVID where I'm using my Windows machine for a large chunk of every day and the weekday/weekend use patterns are more similar, they're still not the same. And not everyone is on an office worker's weekday/weekend schedule either. If it's so important that updates can be installed all the time, just give me a damn weekly calendar and let me say when to do it. "Active Hours" is already buried in a nested page of UI with mostly empty space, it's not like this would over complicate the settings app or take up room that they can't spare. https://i.imgur.com/x5I65Jx.png https://i.imgur.com/x5I65Jx.png A $10 clock/radio has more sophisticated and user-friendly alarm scheduling than Microsoft has managed to create in the world's most popular desktop operating system. Edit to add: why does "Update and Shut Down" mean "Update and Shut Down then Update a Bit More When Turned Back On Later"? Even if it has to reboot a couple times before staying off, "Update and Shut Down" should have the updates completely done the next time I turn it on to use it. Edit 2: Also should point out that the "reopen apps after restart" feature on macOS is pretty much universally supported across apps and works nearly flawlessly. You can reboot and hardly notice it happened afterward. Not as much the case for Windows, where a forced reboot when you're away from the computer is probably going to destroy any unsaved changes in documents that you had open. Apple has been working on seamless reboots since 2011 (OS X Lion) instead of just shoving in "3 AM is update time and we're forcing your computer to reboot, hope you didn't need the stuff you left open yesterday."