In reply to Anne Hennegar.

Well said, better than I put it above. Imagine you're a normal WordPress user. you have a Woocommerce shop. You know you should keep things up to date so you do that today... but you don't see the message from the WC team that it's important to update WC before WP... oops. Or something else goes wrong. Yes, of COURSE you should back up etc... but we're talking normal people here, not devs or IT people. If they are offline for a day - what are their sales losses?

Here's what I don't get - why is it critical to shove this out now vs after the holidays (and let's not go to the utterly silly place that 'there are 7b people, there are always holidays' etc. )?