I get the impression you have a fair bit of computer prowess though. You're likely to realize that the updates are important.
My updates are set to notify me as well and let me choose to install them.
The thing I find with people who use computers as a tool, or an appliance is they forget to do the updates. Then down the road, some "bad" thing comes along and clobbers the computer, mostly because their machine was out of date. My neighbor had antivirus that 5 years expired until I got to her last week.
One of my clients "doesn't do updates". Simply Accounting won't support her, her computer is constantly having trouble, Office and such are really buggy. I finally talked her into doing the updates. I haven't seen her in months