In reply to Greg.

Greg,
We keep WordPress very up to date @GoDaddy. For example, 4.6.1 was updated <24 hours after it's release to every one of our Managed WordPress customers. We're over 1/2 a million sites now on our Managed platform so this causing it to be a bit slower than we want. We will be releasing some changes soon that will make updates even faster.

If you want direct control, you can manage it yourself as well, which many customers do using our control panel.

We're incredibly excited about our partnership with Beaver Builder. Coupled with the awesome work going on in the customizer, we expect to see a huge improvement in new customers ability to publish a completed site.