Comment by notsound

While that would be nice (and a lot of mandatory updates are just slop), this is essentially a classic anti-vax argument applied to digital diseases. When everyone patches quickly, attackers put less effort into exploitation. Just as you can skip the measles vaccine and never get measles, you can run Windows XP and telnet (on a local network) and not get hacked. The issue is that it's getting easier to exploit vulns.