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I don't understand why Apple makes it so difficult to ignore major OS upgrades at least for some time. Most users would be better off waiting at least a couple for a point release of Big Sur. Being responsible for a couple of Macs in my family this makes me quite angry actually.

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What’s so hard to ignore? Apart from the little red dot if you have settings in your dock and maybe one notice it’s not like it’s nagging you like windows does.

I can ignore it no problem. But less proficient users, like my mother, will not know or remeber this advice.

What's also (in)convenient is that unrelated security updates, like the one for Safari that was released the same day as Big Sur, are well hidden UI wise. You have to click a small link below the Big Sur upgrade notification to get to those important security updates.

If you have auto updates enabled it nags you every day with a popup notification window asking to update, exactly the same way Windows does it (at least on my machines).

On a clean install you’ll get one notification. If you ignore that, you won’t see anything outside of the software update panel and automatic updates for everything else will continue to be installed.

I have auto updates and have only gotten one nag about it.

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