What's sad is, in theory, patches should make things better regardless. You could just not buy games if they released buggy and shit and move on from there, while genuinely good patching (fixing badly tuned things or adding more content) could improve on already good games.

The problem being, you don't get a fucking option. Its one thing for "always online" games or for going online in general, but why does a single player game care if I'm patched to the latest level?

There exists no reason but abusive control like this for removing that choice.