Computer software and hardware used to get monotonically better. Due to a combination of marketing imperatives, lack of respect for customers and testers, and ignorance of tradition, we are losing that; traditional test planning has become deeply unfashionable, and new hardware and software may take features away. Once users liked us and paid us, and we deserved it: Software got better and added features; hardware got faster, thinner, lighter, and better. During the golden age of Silicon Valley, we put a dent in the universe. Now users hate us and we deserve it.

Discussion with Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS, at https://talk.tidbits.com/t/hiding-apple-s-big-sur-upgrade-ba...

Was there ever an era of 'update automatically"? I don't remember it, and I'm kinda old.

Fair enough; perhaps only when I was young and foolish (e.g. MacOS 7.0.1), or the late Senator McCain: https://twitter.com/senjohnmccain/status/344187253955907584