To me it seems like there is a different trend happening - Ubuntu now has snaps which auto update and you no longer can get some software without them, whereas

To me it seems like there is a different trend happening - Ubuntu now has snaps which auto update and you no longer can get some software without them, whereas even Debian comes with unattended upgrades enabled in some cloud vendors. Of course, only security update being enabled isn't such a bad thing, but in my experience and and all updates can break things sooner or later.