Speaking about updates, there's a new Feature Windows 10 update coming out soon (April)? so I'm glad that there are no new packs coming out at the same time. https://www.which.co.uk/news/2019/02/windows-10-update-features-history/
It's reserving 7 gigabytes of your hard drive to itself, unusable to you so make sure you have plently of room! That might count on those small SSD drives.
Several times both Maxis' Patches and W10 updates have coincided on the same Tuesday for me with long download times.