Re: Deinstall parts of W10?
"[...] until I'm forced into the painful world of MS's later offerings."
I'm not moving from W7 (and a reserve of XP) for my few remaining Windows applications - most of which do not need to go online.
I have hoarded a few W7 licences unused - so I can set up a VM image that doesn't matter if a clone gets infected and discarded. Also have a few spare motherboards for when W7 can't support new versions of hardware.
In parallel I will continue moving what I can to Linux Mint.
That should last me out.