Agreed...there is no way 98% of Windows users will have the technical knowledge or courage to try and fix this by shrinking and expanding partitions to allow the patch to run. Never gonna happen. They need to either shrink this patch to fit in a smaller partition or include a utility in the patch that expands the WRE automatically. Not sure that will work either, because in many cases, corporate environments have partitions in a different order - WinRE is not the next partition so shrinking/expanding won't even work in those cases - the partitions would have to be reordered as well. Not sure they can do that.
It would be nice for Microsoft to acknowledge the problem but their support services have been cut to the bone...not sure they have any support staff left to talk to - there isn't in our corporate account anymore.
MS seems to be in a bit of trouble...
Remember when MS was pestering people to switch to UEFI? The people that did now have an EFI partition between the system and recovery partitions. Do you trust MS to make an automatic utility to move the EFI partition? I don't!
Whatever they do, it's going to have to work with the smaller partition.