I have seriously started looking for different AV, even thou I have still over 500 days of subscription on 5 of my systems. Frankly I don't have many if any problems and avast works good on all my systems, in fact last years I was considering on getting business licenses for my wife's office (25 workstations) but that has changed since then and this time I have made up my mind
Being pro user for a very long time I have watched avast keep on getting fatter and fatter of this bloatware and unlike other anti-virus installers are between 30-100mb MAX avast's exe is almost 300mb.
Yes! I have a choice of choosing what to install, but where is the clean GUI that I remember years ago, that was one of the reason I have chosen to stick with avast for that long, lets admit, the malware detection is far from superior and sometime even works against you.
What you do in some respect with avast has nothing to do with anti malware protection, times moving forward and I understand more sophisticated bad code is developed to intrude systems protection but e.g. Driver Updater!!! what on earth is that, just purely dumb idea that will cause many to drop your software like a bad habit.
Why not making avast Pro users GUI clean and taking the darn unnecessary crapware of the GUI and maybe make it available for separate download and once someone decide to get it and if that is the choice than integrate into GUI once is installed.
I hate I latterly hate this freaking GUI clattered by garbage, sorry for being harsh but I just had enough of avast being greedy because that's all it is
After more than 20 years I will not hesitate to switch to something else once i test my options, even thou some might think nothing is as good as avast, but...is avast that really good I believe that it's more of a psychological mind set to many long time users, it's hard to switch but sometimes it's the healthy thing to do.