I do not necessarily view this as a bad thing. The ‘doze “Automatic Updates” were so buggy that they sometimes would BSOD the machine and I began disabling them long ago because of that.
Now, I simply no longer allow any machine running ‘doze internet access so as to eliminate the problem. Since I for the most part run linux I no longer have to worry about such things although I still have clients that do.
If I see a need for an update, I will first copy the machine before allowing any update, then if any problems arise I will restore it and wait for a later and possibly more stable update to become available.
Best way to go, I believe.
Cheers. :)
My dislike of Samsung here is the sneaky nature of their disabling. It smacks too much of the old browser and A/V wars, where software manufacturers would disable each other's installations and take over system defaults.
At the very least, Samsung should have made it clear what they were doing.