Asked by @ajsnonsense: Should I use Norton or move to Defender?

This is one of those questions that can be answered in an edgy way historically 1, turns out to be simple in practice 2, and at broad scale is very complex 3.

1.) Those out of practice will tell you Defender sucks. But it doesn't anymore. Ignore them.
2.) Those talking practically will say absolutely use Defender. Make sure you're on the latest Windows build with Tamper protection enabled and your "Win10 privacy tool" didn't unknowingly disable half the protection features through ignorant choices, and you have a super-powerful solution for free. And they are right. That's what I do.
3.) Defender for home users is great, but intractably could do more because it is cuffed by the requirements it work perfectly without much user input across a billion devices, and that attackers will always test against it even if it can adapt quickly via cloud. [I AM TALKING CONSUMER ONLY THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO DEFENDER ATP OR CUSTOMIZED ENTERPRISE STUFF LIKE ASR GROUP POLICY]
Some third-party vendors have their own very novel and more noisy approaches to try to differentiate themselves from this free offering. I won't get in that here.

tl;dr I would not use anything bundled in a computer, I use Defender, but also do not discount unique approaches others can bring to the table – and if you make an informed choice, I support that.

This is the kind of thing you can't say in 280 characters.

The fact is you can reasonably run a modern Windows system without any antivirus at all. Normal user operations just browsing the web have never been safer.
But when you start having users unfamiliar with Windows quirks opening email attachments, getting redirected to sites because they don't have an adblocker, tricked into fake updates.

That's where antivirus saves your ass. It can monitor for failure and respond to it. It acts as a partial backstop to many other layers failing. That SHOULD be its job. If antivirus ever gets a legitimate detection, that is a huge series of failures to make it to your box.

It's easy to be edgy on this topic. Nuance appears pudgy.

@SwiftOnSecurity can you list a few recommendations on which features one should make sure their "win10 privacy tool" didn't disable? 
@Polychrome this is a great question on how to audit I will think about and see if any solutions already exist
@SwiftOnSecurity @Polychrome This definitely should be called out, I worry about all the users who disable security features because some Windows 10 telemetry/bloatware removal tool told them it shares some data with Microsoft. There’s extremely few reasons SmartScreen or Chrome/Firefox Google Safe Browsing should ever be disabled for instance. By contrast there’s no way to disable the equivalent to SmartScreen on macOS, and (now-fixed bugs aside) it’s been fine.