And it wasn't. I reviewed updates so I knew what was going on and when something went wrong I knew well what caused it. But if OS just keeps tossing updates, god knows what may happen and I'd have no clue where to even begin. Getting Lenovo and Huawei firmware updates on system that has neither of those inside just proves my case even more.
Not to mention I do updates myself so the system is under stress and is later restarted on MY terms, not those imposed by Microsoft. Meaning I don't want OS to download 4GB of updates while i'm playing online games. And I also don't want it bugging me about restarts when I have shit to do and I can't afford a restart. It happened to often in the past OS just decided to restart after updates even though I was doing shit with PC.
My point was that you'd not have such updates using the default update method.
I know some users, yourself included, have issues with how Windows updates itself, but it does do it the way it does for a reason, which I have no problems with. Windows does in fact list all the updates it applies (you get a notification that updates were installed, and which ones on which date, and whether the updates were successful, but it is a pain to find out what those updates actually are, for sure. However, you are using the software on THEIR terms, NOT yours, no matter how you look at it. Technically, since you aren't using the software the way they want, according to EULA, they can instantly make your machine a OS-less brick if they wanted, and then sue you for the time they took to do it.
And yes, I find your method of dealing with the situation comical, and think that if you are so paranoid, you best get off the internet, because there are far worse things going on behind the scenes at your ISP and the websites you visit.