Before reaching out to words like "abuse" for what is ultimately a hotfix, perhaps you should read the article. In particular: > Second, we need a mechanism to

Before reaching out to words like "abuse" for what is ultimately a hotfix, perhaps you should read the article. In particular: > Second, we need a mechanism to be able to quickly push updates to our users even when — especially when — everything else is down. It was great that we are able to use the Studies system, but it was also an imperfect tool that we pressed into service, and that had some undesirable side effects. In particular, we know that many users have auto-updates enabled but would prefer not to participate in Studies and that’s a reasonable preference (true story: I had it off as well!) but at the same time we need to be able to push updates to our users; whatever the internal technical mechanisms, users should be able to opt-in to updates (including hot-fixes) but opt out of everything else.