Anyway you can pause the updates until a certain date and time in the advanced settings of the Updates page.

Which is what I've resorted to doing on certain weeks when we need to allow people to access them. My employer is very small without much funding, so I'm not a tech person, but I'm the "tech person," if that makes sense. They never were the best computers in the first place and are used by many people, so obviously that contributes, but they do take excessively long to install updates.

My major beef with my home PC and Windows updates is that I can't totally disable automatic restarts, which is a pain since sometimes there's a reason I want to leave it locked and running overnight without disruption. I've tried regedit, group policy, and taking ownership of the Update Orchestrator folder, but regardless if I've got it locked, Windows decides it's not in use and should be restarted. At least it stopped recommending Windows 11 when I disabled TPM in bios, but once I get more comfortable using Linux, I'll be done with Windows forever.

It's not like I'm neglecting updates, either. I manually check at least once a month. But it still occasionally will hit me with an unexpected/unwanted restart when I least expect it.