> There's another thing that really split the community, many want automatic security updates to Drupal core, but the Drupal core devs have taken a hard stance

> There's another thing that really split the community, many want automatic security updates to Drupal core, but the Drupal core devs have taken a hard stance against this. That might have been true at some point, but certainly is not the case anymore. In fact, automatic updates is a "strategic initiative" for Drupal core: https://www.drupal.org/about/core/strategic-initiatives/automatic-updates https://www.drupal.org/about/core/strategic-initiatives/auto... This still means there is no out of the box way to update Drupal core automatically _yet_, but you can in fact do so with a contributed project, developed and maintained by people that are contributing to the core initiative.