Honestly, as an end-user trying to keep up—please, slow it down! We really don’t need all these releases, especially if we need a more experienced person to update WP for us—I generally feel competent to do plug-in updates, especially if they are a X.X.x+1 version, but for things that need back-ups first, I usually have to call in a colleague or developer, depending on the organization (1 has managed WP that takes care of updating WP for me). I want to keep everything updated for security, but with features changing so often, since I simply maintain 2 sites, am moving a 3rd from DotNetNuke to WP, and lead the volunteer team working with a developer on a 4th—and NONE of this as a full-time job, but as part of grassroots activism in groups where somehow I am the most knowledgeable—it can be a strain to keep up.