>forced updates are always bad things.

The major case is game clients for multiplayer games where it doesn't make any sense to split your player community into older versions. Games across all platforms work this way so its nice to see a consistent UI for Android.

That's a more reasonable use case, but it still doesn't make forced updates a good thing. Opt-in automatic updates, sure, but not forced.

However, this will encourage the use of forced updates outside of that use case. That sounds like a terrible thing.