Sarah, I believe you and Haskins when you say you've had problems with updates from Yoast. I'm just uncomfortable with statements like the one I quoted earlier from the comments and the one in the article body (quoted below) based on what appears to be anecdotal evidence.

"there are those who are wary of forced updates from plugin authors who are notorious for pushing out problematic updates. The support forum for Yoast’s SEO plugin contains many threads regarding fatal errors following updates issued in the past."

"notorious for pushing out problematic updates" Really? If there's reliable evidence of poor QA at Yoast, let's see it. As a repeated user of his plugins, I'm as interested a party as anyone.

You say, "The support forum for Yoast’s SEO plugin contains many threads regarding fatal errors following updates issued in the past."

I see the same thing immediately after updates from WooCommerce, another plugin with 1+ million active installs. Are WooThemes also "notorious for pushing out problematic updates".