In reply to Jeff Chandler.

@Jeff,

Is there any way you can document your experiences with automatic updates and complex sites and describe what breaks? Is it core, is it a plugin, is it a theme that breaks? By documenting the process and describing what goes wrong, it’s possible you can help improve the process so you experience fewer issues updating on more complex sites.

Jeff, that's exactly what I have done. Testing systematically is the only way I've managed to keep myself sane. But it's a very long schedule.

If security patches are bundled with added functionality, that means I can't apply the patches until I have worked through my testing schedule. Getting time to do that is hard. So weeks may go by before I can install the patch.

I just can't see any justification for such bundling.