Hold up, wait a minute, watching the video around the 4:40 mark, did he misspeak or they will be using shady Microsoft tactics? He said "when your sites auto update to WP 5.0...".

Since when WP autoupdates MAJOR versions? Until now, if I'm correct, WP only autoupdates minor releases ONLY, and even that was totally messed up a couple of years ago or so.

My next question is that HAVE all the available ways to disable autoupdates are already been removed with 4.9.8, .7, etc... so using a plugin or wp-config.php command will not work to stop autoupdates?

Any clarification from the core devs. here please?