I killed two of them while swimming in a nearby lake to day. I’m doing my part

Blender 5.0 already huh? I think I started using Blender at 2.4.x. I think the it took half a decade for the version number to go to 2.7.x. Blender has been developing at an incredible pace since 2.8.

However, since currently the Godot launcher is bundled together with the Godot Engine version and all that updates together, late in development of a project you’d want to avoid auto updates since it may break your project at unfortunate times by introducing feature incompatibilities though feature depreciation or regression bugs that causes issues for your game.