Running outdated versions of software, whether on your phone or the desktop, will generally expose you to more vulnerabilities and is not best practice from a security perspective.

People that don't have a solid grasp on computing tend to think any and all updates are inherently good.

Huh, most of the time. I mean, people like you don't have to use it at all, but I prefer to just press "Update all" once if I have >2 updates in a row.

Droidify has an ignore all new versions button. And you can of course downgrade whenever you want.

People that don't have a solid grasp on computing tend to think any and all updates are inherently good.