I was waiting for someone with Internet muscles to post something like this lol. It's a little more than an update one would think, patching security holes almost on a weekly basis?
Hardly. This is only the second update (44 and 70) all year. 38 was released in mid-December 2013. By my estimation you're about 5 updates short in your
hyperbole theory. Worse for the people claiming 'biweekly' (the correct definition of which is "
twice a week"). The only reason you should have had to update more than twice is you're on the beta channel, and if you are, then you knew what you were getting yourself in for.
I manage over a thousand Macs. I have auto-update turned on on all of them, and I haven't had to lift a finger. My audit system says that they've been doing their thing, quietly updating in the background, without hysteria or wailing dramatics.
Adobe has screwed up a lot of things. They spent years producing products that were completely undeployable. They've screwed people over by discontinuing applications out from under them, and in their switch to the subscription model. But patching stuff quickly when it needs to be - in the world's most commonly and heavily-used plug-in - is not one of them.
EDIT: BTW, and for the record, Chrome has also been
updated twice in the same time period,
as has Firefox; both containing security content. Dropbox has been
updated ten times since mid-Dec; they
do produce biweekly updates, sometimes only a couple of days apart.
