Noobie question, considering I haven't picked up my car yet. Being a retired technician I always like to be on the cutting edge, ie. updates. It seems Tesla has a way of using their customer base as a mobile lab. What do you think, if anything may have been avoided if you had kept the updates in Standard mode instead of Advanced mode? Appreciate your patience with my question.
Not much. I see little difference between the modes. If Tesla really wants to push an update due to a recall, they just push it to your car. Advanced/Standard both seem to take forever to send you updates.
You can choose not to install it, by ignoring the nags. I did that from mid December until last week, and avoided losing seat heater and defrost controls, and potentially an issue with the heat pump, until last week. Glad I did, now it seems like the remaining bugs to be worked out are actually pretty minor.
Would have stuck with the old v10 longer, but the family banned me from using AP on road trips, car would slow down so often, so I bit the bullet after hearing good reports on the newer versions.
After you get some time with the car, you'll have a sense of how everything works, and be able to look at release notes and see if the updates make sense to you. If they are changes you want to try, or don't care, go for it. If you're like me, and don't want major stuff to break, you can wait a couple weeks and see if any serious issues come up that you want to avoid, or actually get fixed.
I always wait about a month to install ios updates on my iphone too, I'm just pretty cautious. Has worked well to avoid a lot of bugs over the years.