Can't you understand that's my very point, which is that I don't give a damn if my system has ten thousand high-end bugs or not. It's completely irrelevant as the system works and never gives me any trouble. Why temp fate by letting Microsoft near it?

The point is that ongoing updates and upgrading Windows is a much worse option since Microsoft began stealing user information.

As I mentioned, my bugs are friendly ones in that they've not caused me any significant problem since 2012!

As for security, I couldn't give a damn about security updates, everything is backed up and there's no user data of any significane on the machine worthy of stealing. (One way to ensure private information can't be stolen is not to put machines containing it onto the net. I observe this rule and have always done so.)

The fact is that by not using JavaScript, I likely have better protection anyway.

Addendum, another way of looking at the problem is that I no longer have a relationship with Microsoft. I paid them good money for multiple copies of Windows in 2012 and as far as I'm concerned that's the end of it. Finito.

This ongoing umbilical tethering of software after it's purchased is something I'm strongly against, especially so with software from Big Tech, they're forever adding stuff in patches that benefits them well ahead of the user. I want no part of that type of operation.