Ask HN: Do you like Homebrew updating all tools to bleeding edge versions?

Homebrew is a great tool! It's de-facto standard package manager for macOS.

The reason for this Ask HN is that I saw a comment from one of Homebrew maintainers in this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682031

Here's an excerpt: "because the majority of its [Homebrew] users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling."

My biggest pain point with Homebrew are its constant trying to update packages to the latest versions. I know there are ways around this like some pointed in that thread. I'm just baffled that that's the default behavior.

I'm wondering how many people prefer this behavior and why?