@Sarah Gooding - Maybe one day I'll see... but I'm still not understanding what the problem might be. :) If you're 'living on the edge' do you want WordPress automatically updating things? That removes control. Or is it living on the edge if they just pushed updates to everything immediately, no matter the consequences? Now THAT is living on the edge! (And, unless you're just playing around, I don't think that would generally be considered a positive.)

If what you're saying is that WP Engine is now no longer stock-WordPress, then OK. We'll each have to decide if that is, in any way, a bad thing or not. I've been on my own (i.e.: non-managed... I'm my own IT staff) with WordPress since like 2005. Managed, IMO, is quite nice!