In reply to Central Geek.

It's the WordPress philosophy. They consider people too stupid to either care of have the ability to adequately deal with such technical decisions. Sure, they say it a different way but that is the message. Only they know what decisions should be made and they are making the "smart" decisions so the rest of the stupid people don't have to bother.

Wake up and read what is written.

Here we go again. We are backward compatible with more vulnerable web software which has reached it's end of life and beyond and you want to talk about people who want to have the option to back up their site without having to add more plugins (turn off or on automatic updates). Putting the entire web at risk. That's asinine reasoning.

We can agree to disagree.

We live in a world where the most secure websites are being hacked on a regular basis.

You are attributing the danger to the entire web on a little website run by someone too stupid to be able to make smart decisions about the security of their site and other sites on the web.

And this rationale comes from being asked for an option to have automatic updates off so that sites can be backed up before updates are performed. You can't understand the logic?

My question now is, how did the web survive prior to the introduction of forced automatic updates by the "smart" decision makers over there at WordPress?