This was one of the reasons I went to kinoite. Part of leaving Windows was to get away from all their slop… The other part was to get away all the forced updates. I don’t wanna be forced to update if I don’t want too
Edit: to illustrate your point look at the stories of people who can’t use virilization anymore because they took out virt-manager and QEMU but did a horrible job of telling people and then stuff updated.
Now they rebase to -dx, layer the packages or go someplace else.
Exactly what I do