NIS 2013 Always updated - Good or Bad?

In NIS 2013 "all patches and product upgrades will be downloaded automatically and will not require a restart" as per Tim Lopez  product advice.

 

Previous experience seems to suggest that new product upgrades can take some considerable time to "bed in" with a number of glitches to sort out once the upgrade is published to the wide world - a common experience not unique to Norton by any means! As far as I can make out, this scenario is now almost inevitably playing out with the first release of NIS 2013.

 

My question (as a NIS 2012 user) is whether this means we will no longer be able to choose for ourselves when to move to the next product upgrade? (I am of course not talking about the usual Live Updates previously downloaded in NIS 2012 and earlier).

 

Swordbyte