[kierank]

Absolutely spot on here, there's no reason for the obsession HN (and the wider internet) has with upgrades in these kinds of environments. These are not environments where you can tolerate unplanned downtime, this isn't a silly web app running in us-east.

[sam_lowry_]

Upgrades are a necessity if development goes on.

And HN is full of developers.

On a related note, the new EU Cyber Resilience Act will make upgrades a necessity even in the most constrained environments like pacemakers.

[kierank]

It's easier to do an update with a single security fix rather than an update that rolls in a ton of new functionality that ends up breaking your device. Seen this time and time again with OS/dependency update.