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>But there should be a setting in iOS to disable this requirement of wifi to install updates.

You missed complaint #2. While your plan says unlimited, physics doesn't work that way. It's only fast right now because people aren't pulling large update files in all at the same time. I would not want to be in a populated area trying to use the network on update day. Rush hour at train stations is bad enough...

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It's a pretty crude mechanism, though. A better system would have the tower tell the phone if it's overloaded or not - or, ideally, the available bandwidth - and the phone would decide whether to download it now or later.

There's more to congestion than just the particular tower you're connected to though.

I do find that highly unlikely though. I sometimes am using dozens or hundreds of GBs in streaming over a week and never got throttled so far.

I’d assume few hundred MBs or even few GBs of updates every couple of weeks can’t be of significance.

I think Netflix, YouTube and Twitch traffic are much bigger concern for carriers.

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