“Hey we came up with some new ways to try and solve the kinds of problems this tool is designed to solve” isn’t worth a note? “Hey the version you’re using now won’t work with the new version of the OS you’re using but we fixed that”? “Hey, we fixed a pile of long-standing bugs”? You don’t wanna know about any of those?
It's not great when a modal update notification pops up some X milliseconds after opening a productivity tool, after the required network request has completed. By that time you might be half way through typing something, or just about to click something in the interface.
This is the main issue. It's not that the information is unwelcome, it's that the delivery of said information interrupts workflow. Notepad++ has been particularly annoying me lately with this one. They removed the option to disable auto update a while back, need to see if it has returned.
There should be a site that catalogs anti-patterns and nuisances in applications so we can publicly see the outcry over stupid stuff.
