I think it's more in area of respecting user freedoms. Either users can have an opinion whenever they like the changes or not. I just happen to prefer to be ask

I think it's more in area of respecting user freedoms. Either users can have an opinion whenever they like the changes or not. I just happen to prefer to be asked explicitly in a lot of cases. The issue is not silent updates (an option to have unattended upgrades in some places are godsend!), but in not generally having an option to prevent those and not having a way to roll unwanted ones back.