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It's absolutely not required behavior! Software for servers has very different requirements from software for end users, and if you have a lot of them you also want to manage your end user machines differently.
Updates can go wrong, and if you roll out a bad update to everything at once you can crash everything and lose a lot of money. As aptly demonstrated by cloudstrike.
That's why Delta and many other companies disabled the auto update functions: so they could control the rollout cadence.
They reasonably believed that disabling autoupdates disabled them. They didn't expect a second autoupdate system that wasn't documented, wasn't controlled by the autoupdate system settings and couldn't be disabled.
It's not a second auto update. It's %100 documented in the software and you can %100 throttle it. Channel files are heavily discussed when you roll out CS.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/falcon-content-update-preliminary-post-incident-report/
Might want to let crowdstrike know.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/crowdstrike_lessons_to_learn/
Maybe you're thinking of changes that they made as a result of the incident?
No channel files where %100 there. It's in the general GUI settings. You could throttle channel files. Now after this your able to do General availability, Early availability or pausing them.