In reply to Philip Ingram.

Developers do not need consent from end-users to continue developing new features or making changes to the software. That's not how the process works. If that were the case, WordPress would have never advanced to the point it is at now. We can't all point to our particular dislikes and say they shouldn't be in the platform because we didn't consent to them.

As for auto-updating old installs without consent, I vehemently argued against doing that. Software should never be updated without consent (either through terms or an option). If the software says it's an opt-out feature, that's fair. Just don't do it retroactively for installs where it was previously an opt-in feature.