I'm very enthusiastic about keeping systems up to date, but I've had Windows unexpectedly reboot in order to push an update. This part isn't new, but updates require a reboot almost monthly. Compared to Linux and macOS that's obnoxious--especially combined with coercing those reboots to happen.
I've found the "news" and ads added to Windows very user hostile. As with telemetry. Any attempts to disable them soon get backed out via an update. Similarly with Edge harassing you to "try it again" "are you sure you don't want to change your default browser?"
I don't necessarily mean the last week or month, but more so the last many years. There's definitely too much to list at this point, but in short, Windows has significantly ramped up their user-hostile surveillance and privacy-invasive functions, pushes many features that no one wants such as excessive advertising and tracking, constantly forces what Microsoft wants onto the user (e.g. constantly 'asking' users to use Microsoft Edge, Onedrive, many others), has many annoying patterns such as forcing updates+reboots excessively often, and in my opinion also has terrible UI/UX. Some of these points are a little subjective, but I think that the general pattern of changes over the last decade has been very clear.
Literally all changes past win8 have been user-hostile.
(Depending on your thoughts on what windows version constitutes as good you move this line back to win7/XP, I personally felt win8 was at least usable and did not show freaking ads in my start menu.)
I don't want to be that guy, but the misuse of "literally" in this particular case is just inflammatory. I get the impression you must not have paid close enough attention Windows changelogs to credibly make that statement. I'm a desktop Linux person, but there are _literally_ hundreds of examples of changes to Windows that aren't user-hostile.
What recent change do you mean? I can’t remember any particular change that I would consider user-hostile.