Sadly on this occasion, much though I love the idea of everything staying updated, I have to agree with the naysayers.

Just over a week ago the Yoast SEO plugin was updated and, for about an hour, the update completely broke sites - https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/2029

You had to manually delete the plugin folder and then wait for the next update before putting it back.

With over 1 million active installs an automatic update would have been a complete and utter disaster.

If such a popular, respected plugin can make that mistake, what hope anyone else?