I just love booting up my Fedora/Linux partition and getting to work. Usually not so with my Windows 10 partition ... https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-windows-10-forced-updates-auto-restarts-are-the-worst/
He's quoting an article from 2017 when Win10 was first released. Like you, I have never been forced to restart a Win10 machine. Hell, I never notice the update was installed until I go to power down the machine, and I see the little yellow dot that indicated an update was downloaded.
Immediately after the appearance of Windows 11, many AMD processor owners noticed a 10-15% slowdown in their computers.