Sure it has potential, but the problem is that they'll never stop tweaking it and making changes, it'll always be stuck in a form of "beta". It's no longer a product and is now a service, which means you own nothing and they own you. If they wanted to, they could simply just take it away from you and you're left with no OS. I don't like seeing things change all the time especially when it involves crap I don't even want. Or like that one update that randomly deleted ppl's personal and business files for no reason... what excuse could they possibly have for that short of blatant incompetence?
Also, as far as I know, you can only disable so much... apparently some of the spy stuff is hardcoded in and you can't do anything about it without disconnecting the internet or getting a firewall.