You're free to do whatever you want, but then you don't get to complain when the rest of the world moves on instead of stagnating with you.
When installing windows 10 you have the option to turn off most, if not all data collection from microsoft. The only thing you can't is error reporting, & you can even turn that off from inside windows.
As for "your operating system making you do what it wants instead of it doing what you want" I have no clue what you're talking about. My OS does what I want, when I want, & I'm no basic user either. Windows 10 has never forced me to do anything since the early beta days. Even automatic updates can be set to wait until you restart your PC yourself, & even completely disabled with about 5 minutes of looking up how & following simple steps.
Most complaints people have about W10 are from people who haven't tried it since the early days & are ignorant of the improvements made, or people who are stuck in their ways & consider all change bad because they have to learn something new.
