Early always-connected computers with no NAT led to a lot of hard lessons. At this point many of those have been learned, and there's a lot more depth to networ

Early always-connected computers with no NAT led to a lot of hard lessons. At this point many of those have been learned, and there's a lot more depth to network security. Operating systems and key tools like web browsers and ssh are hard enough that strictly necessary updates like heartbleed patches are few and far between, and are hard to miss. The majority of what gets pushed out now through automatic updates for OSs and key software is exploiting the update channel to deliver crap features that increase revenues or deepen the moats for the company pushing them. They want to ensure that they can collect maximum rent with the least effort for as long as possible. Hopefully that abuse will reach a point where the camels back breaks, and the pain of freeing yourself from vendor lock-in becomes worth it, prompting smart consumers and businesses in large numbers to use and support principled software projects through contributions of money, code and labor.