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Although automatic firmware updates should probably be the default, there should be a method (easily accessible in the firmware settings) to disable firmware auto-updates. The foregoing would all...
I'd maybe suggest, as a compromise, a downgrade/revert setting, which then pauses updates until the next new version comes out, effectively skipping the version you downgraded from. Perhaps even better, data on reversions can be sent to NG, so they can see quickly that many users are downgrading their firmware.
For instance:
If the current version is 2.1.4.10, but it is (hypothetically) problematic, I can go into the admin settings, tell it to downgrade, and it'll downgrade to 2.1.3.4, and then won't update to 2.1.4.10, instead "sitting out" updates until at least 2.1.4.11 comes out, at which point it goes back to applying every update until reverted again. Revert, and then the upgrade you abandoned is, effectively, invisible to the router.