Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected
(www.windowslatest.com)
15-20 years ago I'd regularly find Windows 7 PCs that had stuffed boot drives using the \Windows\Temp folder with corrupt or "could not install, retried" updates. They've improved nothing in all that time. The only thing they've "improved" is the UI, which is at best debatable. I think most people would now be absolutely thrilled to go back to 7's user interface today.
Using Windows at this point is a sign of someone too lazy to try something new, glued to a game run by assholes that won't check a box on their end to allow their anti-cheat to function elsewhere, or completely comfortable in the Windows ecosystem prison system.