Microsoft stopped distributing individual patches, all updates are now rolled up into one package. Therefore, if one patch causes issues, none of them can be released.
Windows 10 already worked like that, last fall they started doing the same for older OS'es.
Seriously, think about all the different issues Windows 10 has caused to people's computers. So if one issue damages a computer, they can't send any of the other updates to that model of laptop?
They should be striving towards higher modularity, not a lower one.
Windows 10 already worked like that, last fall they started doing the same for older OS'es.
See: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2016/08/15/...