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You can totally stop updates on Windows. Fully off. They don't offer good options for updating on demand on your own schedule, but you can disable updates entirely and for pro and enterprise skus you can use GPO for additional delay options.
Wat. Enterprise does allow you to update whenever you want.
I honestly don't remember the specifics of how I've got my Pro install configured for updates. I think it doesn't notify of available updates until they've been out a month (keeps me from pulling down a bleeding edge update that causes more problems than it fixes), downloads them so they'll auto-install on shutdown/restart for a week, and if I don't uodate that week then it flashes up the "your organization requires you to update by [next week]" message. I don't think it actually forces when that week runs out, so you're probably right, but it's been a long time since I've went two whole weeks without shutting down or rebooting.
I do know that I've got "feature updates" (read OS changes) set to only be available if I manually install them. So the whole "Windows forces you to upgrade to 11" complaint is pure BS at least.
I have feature updates disabled and security ones delayed for 4 days but that's only for the notification. It doesn't actually do anything unless I click "Update". That's why I don't get what you mean by saying it doesn't allow you to update on demand. I'm on Windows Education so it might be different for Pro since it has less features.