On the other hand, my Nest thermostats were bricked after a software update this week, so maybe today I'm starting to see a crack in my "auto update is best" dogma...
It works best when the vendor can be trusted to only push security updates and occasional quality of life improvements. In general, automatic updates tend to be a vector for bloat, user-hostile features (e.g. spyware), and user-hostile business practices (e.g. remote bricking).
I am not aware of any, except—somewhat ironically—for some open source projects.
None. Hence, personally, I dislike auto updates.
For me that crack came when an automatic update to Android removed Exchange server support from my tablet (around 2015). I no longer had a good workflow for keeping up with work communication, which ultimately, as a sometimes-remote dev at the time, cost me a lot of productivity and reputation at that job.
Now, anything that involves my productivity or quality of life (e g. thermostat) is on a manual update process as much as possible.
I've tried playing around with DHCP but nothing changed, maybe my it's my ISP's router which is a pita to work with...(vodafone).