As someone who maintains an open source development tool that I work on in my spare time and don't get paid for, reducing my support workload is absolutely more important to me. You'd be surprised at the amount of time I waste asking people to try to reproduce an issue on the latest version, and when they do, their issue goes away. Unfortunately an auto-update feature for my tool isn't feasible, but if it were, I'd add it in a heartbeat. If that would turn some people off on it, I'm fine with that.

On a side note, I see plenty of developers click the "Remind Me Later" button over and over and over on the update dialog for their dev tools (and even OS). As a pathological example, I noticed one of my coworkers running a 3-year-old version of IntelliJ IDEA recently when he shared his screen on a Zoom call. But people who don't even install patch updates for months is common as well.