They’re just going to do a classical boil-the-frog operation:
Step 1: Make it opt-in and present it as the new cool thing.
Step 2: Make it opt-out, and if the users opts out, show a scary warning about how the cool thing won’t work anymore.
Step 3: Make it opt-out, but hide the opt-out option deeply.
Step 4: Remove opt-out, but it still works with a registry hack. Microsoft apologists will still thinks it’s cool because “just use this simple registry hack bro”.
Step 5: Remove opt-out alltogether, and automatically opt people in who had previously opted out.
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They’re just going to do a classical boil-the-frog operation:
You forgot Step 0: make an announcement so overtly egregious that when you walk it back, the compromise sounds reasonable
There’s no reasonable form of this.
No but there sure is a much more unreasonable form of this.
They already had this feature once in Windows 10, and you don’t remember because it doesn’t work like that.
“You can still install it with a local account!”
Just disconnect your network cable, press this magic key combination and type this undocumented command: “MSBLAOIGKSDF /ACZSF”