You’ve written some good lines here, and I do agree that Microsoft Systems have gone MUCH better than even 10 years ago…
However, generally Microsoft is like a Monoculture crop… One disease, and you’re bankrupt!
Enterprise Tools, like Solarwinds, are often the bigger problem than Windows itself - they’re well trusted, everyone uses them, like the Mainframe complex of the 1960/70ies…
“No tech manager ever got fired for ordering an IBM mainframe…”
The same mentality also causes eg Microsoft SQL to only be installed on a Microsoft Server system, even though they could easily run on a Win10 box or on Linux, and even supported on Linux!
A Linux box running Microsoft SQL Server is probably much less “hackable” than one running on Windows, simply because most hackers will not verify the OS, and blindly try to use Windows hacker tools - against a Linux system…
My 2 cents
Andy