Windows doesn't take it as a suggestion until the 7 day mark of it waiting for a restart. Or if the update is marked critically late which I believe is 1-3 months after update release(?). if you are either shutting down or rebooting your computer every couple of days, you're not going to run into this issue.

The only time I've ever run into the issue of Windows forcing an update was when I switched to Linux and kept Windows as a secondary OS. Because now instead of running the OS and shutting it down daily, I'm running the OS maybe every seven or eight months, so by the time it installs the updates, it's already hit that threshold of you need to install these updates now.