Yes, I feel one thing that often gets overlooked is MS Defender having more or less replaced the need for AVs for most people with a 'free' AV that works well (relative to other previous options) and doesn't saddle the system with all sorts of adware.
A few months ago I did some maintenance on my Dad's old laptop, found it was running one of the old spammy AVs which feel the need to install browser addons and tons of other garbage. The AV was bogging down the system hard, uninstalling it helped a lot, but then a few days later it came back begging you to reinstall it. That one left me baffled as to how anyone thought that wasn't blatant malware-style behavior intending to bypass maintenance to dupe people who are less caught up on the state of computing.
A few months ago I did some maintenance on my Dad's old laptop, found it was running one of the old spammy AVs which feel the need to install browser addons and tons of other garbage. The AV was bogging down the system hard, uninstalling it helped a lot, but then a few days later it came back begging you to reinstall it. That one left me baffled as to how anyone thought that wasn't blatant malware-style behavior intending to bypass maintenance to dupe people who are less caught up on the state of computing.