I think the auto-update will cause unnecessary headaches and let me explain why…and I hope I’m wrong.

If an auto-updated plugin is problematic, imagine how customers will feel when they work on their website without knowing an update runs behind the scenes, and all of a sudden they get these messages about “something went wrong” and have no idea how to access their websites.

I have had a situation like that with WooCommerce…twice please!

I immediately went on my hosting service, read the logs, and found the problem.

Imagine now being a standard user that is not a WordPress developer how they would feel.

I honestly have mixed feelings about this, not denying about it.

Closing, I would like to ask the WP Dev Team: how is the auto-update procedure goes?

a) Does it save a backup of the current plugin state before the upgrade?
b) How does it prevent possible corruption during upgrade procedure?
c) Does it come with a rollback mechanism? It would be really helpful to rollback to the previous working version!
d) Is there any individual log mechanism for each plugin upgrade? It can be helpful to keep an eye in the whole procedure in case something goes wrong or should I look in my log files as a standard procedure?