Apple or anyone cannot silently pushing changes to my computer without my explicit consent – especially on unrelated things.
What Apple did here is also a dark pattern. We cannot commend them and normalize this behavior.
This is a dictatorial one-sided decision by Apple. What else can they do? Can nation state governments compel Apple to push stuff silently? Can this system be abused by hackers?
Why are we dependent on the good moral behavior of Apple business decision makers for the well-being of our digital lives? Haven't we learnt anything at all from all the incidents in the recent past w.r.t trust in corporate benevolence?