[justoreply]

I have a company-provided mac, I don't have an App Store account as it requires a phone number (and I'm not going to use my personal phone number to register it, it is not even allowed by policy) so I'm not going to update any app via the store

[capableweb]

Well, then this doesn't really affect you as you don't have a choice regarding updates at all :)

[astrange]

Your company could use Apple Business Manager/Managed Apple ID if they wanted to.