I'm curious, what does having control over the update process give you? Isn't it replacing one unauditable black box system for another?
Are you concerned about a regression and don't want to be in the vanguard cohort?
We can assess the analogy on its merits, but random opinions are circulated in docs at Google all the time. From this article, 186,000 employees, therefore lots of opinions. This is a random employee who's made an analogy, not a leadership owned doc.