About a decade ago, the industry shifted from slow, carefully evaluated infrequent updates (except for security) to frequent, almost daily updates that are mand

About a decade ago, the industry shifted from slow, carefully evaluated infrequent updates (except for security) to frequent, almost daily updates that are mandatory. I'd say this was pioneered by the Chromium team and proved to be beneficial. The rest of the industry followed. Now we're in a position where most projects update so quickly, that you don't really have a choice. If you need to update one component, there's a good chance it will require that many more as dependencies in your project will require an update to be compatible. The industry as a whole sacrificed stability and some aspects of security for faster advancements and features. Overall I'd say the net benefit is positive, but its times like these that remind us that perhaps we need to slow things down just a little and do a bit of a course correction to bring things into a better balance.