Automatic software updates have had an impact on me in several ways. My phone, of course. It will, quite unpredictably change how it works. Often in a way that seems worse to me. It may be better for some, but not for me.

Or games I play (computer games). The updates or expansions aren't always better than the original, but there's no way to go back to the thing I loved.

And computer software that I use for programming often changes without much warning. Libraries and/or frameworks will update in a way that disrupts my workflow. This is the situation most like those recording studios. I know how chaotic it is when I have to port to the new release in the middle of something else, and I'm not on much of a production schedule.

Automatic updates exist for a reason. The reason is that people might well never do it otherwise, and on balance, that's a bad thing. But yikes, the situation we are in has me constantly asking, "Who owns this computer anyway?"