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>GWX upgrade campaign that was aggressive and perfidious
>privacy concerns regarding new methods of system data collection like DiagTrack, CompatTelRunner (some parts of were backported to 8.x and 7 later on)
>that made all previous phone-home scares like CEIP, Error Reporting and Windows Genuine Advantage look tame in comparison
>especially considering the post-Snowden zeitgeist and how not long before people slammed M$ for the Xbox One's initial DRM policies, the console being always-on(line) and with the integrated Kinect sensor potentially tracking you
>new Windows Update frontend in the Settings app (no more Control Panel applet), with changed logic of "Check for updates" button being "Check, download and install NAO!"
>automatic updates being practically set to "install and prompt for reboot" only unless you changed the group policy, as the advanced automatic update settings in the frontend stopped containing the "choose how Windows should deliver updates" settings anymore
>first Windows release after the QA team layoffs in 2014 - doubts about the release quality, especially as testing was delegated to the common folk now (Windows Insiders), doing it for free like jannies
>initial UI being a failed abortion of Metro/Modern UI and the desktop experience of earlier Windows
>this blue bitch from Halo being the useless virtual assistant
>and your usual teething problems with initial releases
Then you had some people complaining about how stuff that they used in Windows 7 or 8 were either deprecated or fully gone in 10 like Photo Viewer or Media Center, and some complaining about sponsored apps in the new-old start panel (though this depended on the region and edition used).

Some have downgraded to previous Windows releases, some have grown accustomed to the OS due to improvements like DX12, fullscreen optimizations (MPO), newer WDDM and NDIS standards and whatnot from the feature upgrades. All was swell until 11 came to be released...