It already updates the core automatically on new installs right?

AND I still go into my configuration files and disable that feature.

I like to update things manually. ESPECIALLY plugins because I need to know what the new changes are. This makes work, but if you care about your site, you should be doing manually updates on everything, especially themes and plugins which may have direct impacts on the look and functionality of your site.

For sites that don't keep their stuff updated, that's a problem they need to solve if they care about the site.