How can people put up with Windows update?

I had a bit of free time and i wanted to play a game that I was quite fond of a bit over a decade ago, aoe2. I never tried their new remastered edition, but since most players moved over i was planning on trying it out.

So i grabbed a slightly older laptop that i knew it had a Windows partition. On most of my machines i use Linux, and generally have no need for other OSes.

So what happens is that a notification keeps coming up asking me to "restart to finish installing an update". I ignored it a few times, but then I thought, heck, let's do it, can't be more then 5 minutes. Now, more than 2 hours later it's barely at 25% and the system is completely unusable for other tasks.

This seems to be a frequent occurrence. I don't understand how a product with such a user hostile behavior can still be on the market.

If i was at home, i would just reinstall a clean version. That is much faster.