> counterproductive, in that presenting updates through the same channel tends to conflate them in the minds of users, with the result that critical security up

> counterproductive, in that presenting updates through the same channel tends to conflate them in the minds of users, with the result that critical security updates instead end up being given the lesser attention more appropriately due to a new feature update Good article, but actually understates the problem. It's not just that nonsecurity updates are appropriately due lesser attention. It's that they are appropriately due negative attention. My computer works fine the way it is. I actively do not want it screwed around with. I make a necessary exception for security updates. To put anything other than a security update into that channel is an abuse of trust that was granted for an important purpose, and trust that is abused is liable to be lost.