I don't know if they re-enabled that recently or not, but as far as I know you can only disable windows updates through regedit and typical bs work arounds.
It looks like you're right that they don't make it available with the GUI, but you don't need regedit. Just disable services.msc ... they say. I have had Windows re-enable services before.
I think you can switch off Microsoft updates? IDK about this Crowd strike thing.
I don't know if they re-enabled that recently or not, but as far as I know you can only disable windows updates through regedit and typical bs work arounds.
It looks like you're right that they don't make it available with the GUI, but you don't need regedit. Just disable services.msc ... they say. I have had Windows re-enable services before.