The ONLY time windows turns into a tech nightmare is when it’s being installed by a Linux fanboy…
You pick the harddrive to install it on. Make 5-12 clicks and you have a perfectly working system… But fanboys spend a week trying to do things with it, it is specifically designed not to do and then blame windows.
Not saying it isn’t without its issues like Microsoft spying on you, but 90% of the time is a user issue.