In reply to Noni.

Thank you for the kind words, Noni!

We do appreciate that many folks have businesses to run based on WordPress, and that updates can take time (even with auto-updates enabled, you still want the peace of mind to check that everything is working correctly afterwards). Update fatigue is a real thing that can have an effect on your business, and your experience with WordPress.

That said, the long term plan is more auto updates, rather than fewer. I'll be happy when we get to a world where we push out a release every few days, consisting of just bug fixes, or a new feature when it's ready to go. Part of that involves helping folks evolve their work processes to handle this frequency, and to trust that auto updates will just work.