Nah man. Windows 10 was full of telemetry from day 1. It was the first version of Windows that hid away the ability to even use a local-only login, trying to push every user onto a MS account for that sweet tracking and advertising dollar.

They even gave the OS away for free - absolutely unthinkable to 90s/2000s era Microsoft, now why would that have changed?

Pushing the users to their cloud offerings for those that they can tempt, and tracking, profiling, advertising for every user. From conception.

Just look at who is in the White House, mate - and not just the president, but basically you can pick anyone he’s hand-picked for his staff.

Surely that’s an instant cure for any qualified person feeling imposter syndrome in their job.