Cumulative updates January 2021

Many of the comments here refer to this update having broken things for them, as usual. So far, I've not found anything actually broken. I expect I have those joys to come, along with new "features" which in reality will be more rubbish foisted on us because some techie thought it was very clever, and we'll have to spend ages figuring out how to remove or hide. I expect to also find features that I do find useful have been removed, or "improved" so that they're no longer worth bothering with (e.g. replacing "Snip", a very useful SIMPLE little app, with "Snip & Sketch", an overblown "upgrade" packed full of features and options I'll never ever use, and making the one thing I do want to do much more long winded).

I HAVE found that, as usual, Microsoft has ignored all of my carefully thought out tweaks to suit my needs and reinstated unwanted libraries and folders, messed around with my [Start] menu, etc. These changes took an inordinately large amount of effort because MS makes it unnecessarily hard to do.

So I would be interested to know, is this lack of any consideration because:

(1) Microsoft developers are not skilled enough to be able to capture a user's settings and preferences, and maintain/restore them during an upgrade, something which virtually every other software provider I use seems to have absolutely no problem doing?

(2) Microsoft care so little about their customers as individuals that they think it's OK to save a few developer hours at the expense of thousands of cumulative user hours restoring what their upgrades have destroyed?

(3) Microsoft believe they know better than their customers how their customers' computers should be set up and used?

If this is the wrong place to ask this question, I'd be pleased if someone could point me to the right one.

[PS: Please note that this is a repost, as the original has mysteriously disappeared without a response to my question]

hi all:

It is update Tuesday & the cumulative updates will be arriving sometime today. Here is the link to the February cumulative update. Please migrate all responses to my new post. I will be updating more info. when it comes out.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/cumulative-updates-february-2021/5cfa6a53-954d-4da5-b645-7905200803d1?tm=1612886897712