I think a better title would be "Why Fixing Bugs Only in Future Releases is Inadequate"
Hm. You may be right.
But free OS upgrades essentially lead to bugs only being fixed in the main branch. That's why they suck. That's the point.
Too funny. This article references the too frequent Apple OS updates which then break software. In this case beaTunes. MS, on the other hand, has free updates that break hardware.