@oddz wrote:
If I had a dime for every question ever posted regarding fixing a broken Wordcrap site after automatically updating core or plugins I would be rich.
The strength with open source is anything can be modified. The consequence of which is that those providing the system can't assume a consistent state across all deployments of the platform. The more assumptions a open source platform makes the more likely breakage is to occur when updating. Therefore, the safest approach is to rely on users of the platform to update manually. Otherwise any open source system has a potential to break when updating automatically.