how about they leave the fluoride in it for starters?

The morale of the store is, read the release notes to see what’s changing.

You do that, I do that, but most people just click Update. And that’s if whatever wants to update itself lets you even opt out: Windows for example will nag you into submission at best, and more likely simply apply the update without asking your permission, and while you’re in the middle of important work if it wants to.

Same here. But I avoid saying it too often because I always get jumped by a bunch of forced-upgrade lemmings who insult me and tell me I’m a dumbass because I expose myself to immediate and terrible danger from evil hackers in the next 30 seconds. Which of course isn’t true, but most people have been so drilled into blindly updating anything anytime an update is available without even checking what they’re installing that they’ll aggressively confront you if you don’t.

The instance I use (SDF) has stopped fetching Youtube video titles and thumbnails weeks ago. I just add them manually now.
The SDF instance runs 0.19.8.