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Agreed.Exactly. DJI finally lost me last fall when they tried to slip a patch into their desktop software without incrementing the point release version number. It took an incredible amount of effort to figure out. I can only conclude someone at DJI was embarrassed that they needed to fix a bug and so they made the fix and uploaded the new software under the same version number. At the time, the only way to get the newly released controller with a built in gimbal tilt wheel to operate was to re-download the desktop software again. At the time people were chalking it up to a cultural thing about saving face, but I reject that. I do think it's a sign of a bad corporate culture though.
That's exactly what DJI did with the A2 firmware, they released a fix but tried to hide the fact keeping the version number the same, this then caused huge headaches when people with the bugged firmware had to revert to an older firmware to then update.
This is my worry, bad version control by mistakes is alarming enough, when it's done with apparent intent it's even worse.