Except that they didn't. With even a little bit of research you can easily find out that they made skipping updates a paid feature, and then even removed that after negative feedback!

People were even talking about downgrading below the version that introduced the 'paid update skipping', so any way you look at it, your comment doesn't make any sense.

Did you read the article? It was about a company struggling to monetize an open source project. It hardly seems time for teenagerish M$-Windows asides on how you don't like people monetizing the software they are giving you for free.

I ignore docker myself. It's been too unstable for me and historically just costs me time, I'd rather just use systemd on a VPS. Occasionally when someone else has setup a complex system in docker I want to play with it has been convenient. Still, I avoid installing it at all.

This is exactly why I think new-cloud companies like fly.io, stackpath, deno.land, vercel.app are the future. No one wants to deal with muck if they can avoid it.

Cloud exposed data center primitives. Then, cloud-native laid bare the at-scale primitives. Imho, I think the industry is ripe for both NoCloud and NewCloud.