[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.