You wildly underestimate most corporate IT security's obsession with pushing updates to products like this as soon as they release. They also often have the power to make such nonsense the law of the land, regardless of what best practices dictate. Maybe this incident will shed some light on how bad of an idea auto updates are and get C-levels to do something about it, but even if they do, it'll only last until the next time someone gets compromised by a flaw that was fixed in a dot-release