I get that Microsoft got some heat recently, felt threatened and finally started to prioritize beneficial software features, optimizations and debloating, as well as engaging more with its userbase, including constantly hyping them up for what's to come. And I appreciate it.

However, now that the testing channels are as robust, prolonged and engaged with as ever, I find this overreliance on gradual rollouts absolutely ridiculous and, frankly, infuriating.

At this point I would honestly prefer dead silence from the PR team over this overengagement about features that never seem to really manifest. Every two weeks there's something large that my news feed gets bombarded with - Xbox mode, File Explorer caching, Low Latency mode, etc. etc. And it never comes. I'd understand if it was a 1 or 2-week rollout, just to be extra safe and be able to stop it if something goes wrong, especially for the early preview optional builds, but it's often months and it never rolls out until I've completely forgotten I was ever excited about the feature.

People are forced to workaround with ridiculous things like ViveTool flagging register booleans/ids (or whatever it's doing), but all the guesswork and the sync with the MS cloud being able to revert it all at any given moment are way too tiring to be called a "solution".

So, please, for the love of god, either start marketing features when they're actually ready, or make the rollouts have normal durations. Or, at the very least, make opt-ins (I know they are planned for some Insider channels, but I'm talking about the production channel here) for us enthusiasts, who have very little to risk, but wouldn't want to jump as far as to an insider build.

Those gradual rollouts are getting ridiculous