No, it isn't. Disabling update isn't a logical answer to _anything_ except "what's the best way to get malware". If you don't want Microsoft's "spyware" don't install their OS. There is no coherent logic to simultaneously not trusting Microsoft, and running their code - any version of it.
Of course there is. Many of us found Windows 7 to be a useful OS and trusted Microsoft of that era to produce it. That doesn't necessarily mean we trust Microsoft of this era or more recent Microsoft products to be something we want to use. There is no logical incompatibility here. They've simply changed their strategy to one some of us don't like, after we bought some of their earlier products and before the support lifetime of those products ran out.
I disabled Win10 updates over 1.5 years ago with zero issue. Security people love to claim the sky is falling, but it's all about risk/reward. Risk of issue due to actual exploit is pretty low for most people, so even though the potential IMPACT is very high, because the probability is so low compared to the constant irritation of Microsoft arbitrarily forcing whatever they want down your throat once a month, they just deal with it and shut off updates.
edit: downvote if you want, I'm not wrong.
Try doing the Windows 10 anniversary upgrade if you run bitlocker and have customized your UEFI.
Windows will screw up, bluescreen, and destroy the bitlocker keys.
I’ve fought with that before.
Windows’ Anniversary Update works by adding an additional, hidden EFI bootloader, and loading that for the upgrade.
If you instead load the normal Windows EFI bootloader while the upgrade has half-way finished, then it fucks stuff up.
I’ve been through it multiple times, last time, Windows even destroyed all its own EFI entries.
So it's a trade-off: Security threats or antifeatures.