I still cringe slightly at Linux updates because I’m on a distro with enough cutting-edge unstable stuff that every few months something gets a little broken for a few days. But nobody forces updates on me so I usually just let my system lag behind in non-security updates and let other people test the waters first.
I switched to Linux when Windows 7 support ended and honestly Linux with the Windows-like KDE Plasma desktop felt to me more like the unobtrusiveness and level of control I had become accustomed to with Windows XP and Windows 7 than Windows 10 was capable of delivering. If you’re not relying on something like Adobe suite that just can’t be made to run on Linux at all, it might be worth looking into sometime. I’ve never regretted switching.