The definition of frequent updates also depends on if you consider beta releases to be updates.
Taking that into account there have been far more updates but as I said in an earlier post... the choice to update or not is with the user and if they don't want to they don't have to but can't complain about not being able to make backups with newer discs.
Nice to see a familiar face here. I'm registered at another forum as OHMB and was kind of wondering who I'd find here.