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An OS is like a car or a machine in the sense that it needs regular maintenance. You can ignore that regular maintenance at your own peril, but it's not the car manufacturer's fault if you refuse to change the oil. Or if you decide to camber your tires out to a ridiculous angle and it breaks the wheel bearings.
Stepping back from your analogy, the only way that Windows is going to fail to play your game because you haven't updated is if the game needs to update too. And if it's that important to you, you can disable updates entirely and only re-enable them when it suits you. Only booting up Windows once a month is pretty damn good use case for that. Disable updates, play your game, re-enable them and let it do its thing when you're done.
Windows is definitely not ideal, but there is a lot of people spreading learned helplessness solely for the sake of pushing Linux. Linux is absolutely better, but Windows is not some festering boil that provides the sensory equivalent of nails on chalkboard if you use it correctly/as designed.
Another big thing people complain about is ads in the various system utilities. Hell yes that's disgusting. However, all of those ads are disabled by a single option in the settings menu that doesn't reset itself on update.