Title: My internet is not that fast (6mb/s, shared with at least 2 others). (note: updating less frequently uses less data, at least when it comes to skipping over multiple versions of packages particularly for larger ones like the kernel)
Back when I used W7 I hated updates too. For the same reason (but even slower internet), but also because Windows updates rarely ever brought visible improvements. I know a current Windows user and they don't like updating too much due to the forced restarts and applying updates.
Also a majority of update issues I've had on Linux, to my knowledge were directly related to packaging. I typically wait and these are fixed, though my last problem was related to nvidia(+systemd) and took months before it was fixed (and a different problem preventing updates I just had to uninstall something and re-install it after updates).