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> A big driver of automatic updates in the late 00s and early 10s were people who never updated their OS or browser and were getting compromised left and right.

I think we would be better off if people worked harder to prevent vulnerabilities before releasing the software.

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I won't argue with that, but with how complex web browsers have become, holes are unavoidable regardless of the level of effort put forth to prevent them.

> I think we would be better off if people worked harder to prevent vulnerabilities before releasing the software.

Pawn Stars meme: "Best I can do is people using glorified chatbots to generate mediocre code an order of magnitude faster"

That said, the vast majority of the exploits that led to the widespread adoption of automatic update mechanisms were based around memory safety bugs which we do in fact have solutions to entirely prevent in most newly developed software these days.

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