More an effect than a cause. When it was hard to convince people to update, and an automatically-updating OS was scary, and pipes were too small to download big patches, then you had to get it right the first time. Nowadays, as long as the OS works well-enough out of the box to suck down the newest point release, all is well from the end-user&#x27;s perspective. Except maybe there&#x27;s some weird out-of-box bugs until they&#x27;ve let their computer sit around for a few hours and restarted it once.