> These days, you can’t afford to wait any more than 24 hours to iterate your designs and try out changes to your software with real customers.
Software that does this to me is one of my pet peeves. It's a terrible practice for the end user, and is the main reason why I no longer use SaaS or allow installed software to update itself automatically.
Doing it without your customer's agreement is indeed unhelpful! I'm sorry you're that frustrated by this experimentation.
That's why I advocate using feature flags and beta labels and supervised user research to get feedback. Do those methods work for you, so you can opt in?
Software that does this to me is one of my pet peeves. It's a terrible practice for the end user, and is the main reason why I no longer use SaaS or allow installed software to update itself automatically.