These options are more like "I deleted a whole bunch of stuff in xorg.conf and my apt-get can't apply patches to KMail". An update-delivery mechanism shouldn't break because the user doesn't want to see ads or run Teams at startup.
If the problem is that Windows Update cannot work unless all patches apply flawlessly, then that's a failure of design.
If the problem is that the patches themselves assume that things they provide as options might not be set how they wish them to be set, then that's a failure of testing.
> If the problem is that Windows Update cannot work unless all patches apply flawlessly, then that's a failure of design.
Not at all, it's better for an update to just immediately fail due to unsupported changes made to the OS than potentially leave the system in a unstable state.
Windows was going to move to an image-based OS where updates would be atomic, but sadly that never happened (Windows 10X)
The fact that failing to update some Notepad functionality could leave the system "unstable" says a lot about the engineering culture at Microsoft, I guess.
If the problem is that Windows Update cannot work unless all patches apply flawlessly, then that's a failure of design.
If the problem is that the patches themselves assume that things they provide as options might not be set how they wish them to be set, then that's a failure of testing.