While i get what your saying cant you remove the forced install of it to update in future? I mean its not fair your paying customers have to troubleshoot like this because of a decision you made. That's a lot of effort to simply install an update and may not even fix the issue in a lot of cases (had issues with Visual Studio previously). Also i figured it out the installer looks for Visual C++ 2015-2019 which it force installs. However if you have the newer update 2015-2022 like i did it doesn't work it specifically searches for the 2015-2019 Visual C++.