From his service provider viewpoint BKM expresses your exact sentiments The business of ERP and Pricing it right - #37 by bkm
The incessant stream of updates exhausts users who refuse to tolerate the time consuming changes that detracts from their business routines.
His service is to supply a ‘stable’ version that clients can use, presumably that he offers customizations.
I would be keen to know why Frappe prefers NOT to offer erpnext.com hosted users an opt in/opt out choice to auto update. Perhaps for maintenance and resource reasons, they prefer to fix update bugs when they happen in relation to code changes, rather than at some later date when client’s opt to update and a bug is stale and developers are less familiar with the problem code?