Most certainly it's related to this: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/hardware-dev-center...

Presumably it’s part of their commitment to kill kernel patching in Windows, to prevent another Worldwide Enterprise Windows Outage Caused By A Buggy Vendor DLL event.

its my computer. its my os. i own it. I paid my money and bought the program. not them. I am free to install whatever software and modify whatever kernel components as i see fit.

I am so sick and tired of the continued erosion of the ownership model. I dont want to rent anything. But corporations see it as an avenue to increase revenue. We pay more, for less. What else is new.