What I find more saddening is the trend to view any behaviour that could potentially be exploited as a vulnerability, regardless of how useful it could be, whic

What I find more saddening is the trend to view any behaviour that could potentially be exploited as a vulnerability, regardless of how useful it could be, which just leads to locked-down user-hostile systems where nothing is possible without going through some sort of ridiculously bureaucratic excess of process. Automatic downloading falls into the category "kind-of useful and convenient, but exploitable". Maybe you want to reconsider your argument?