It is insane to me as a C programmer as well. It is something I got used to as a frontend js developer.

It so recommend to stay on top of the dependencies and for different stacks this means different update schedule. For some, daily is indeed a good choice.

Even if there is a new version every day, not every release is born equal. Wouldn't updating while developing to "stay on top of dependencies" only be necessary on a major version? Surely there is not a major version per day. I mean otherwise you would use a library, that constantly imposes work on you and it would probably make more sense to write the library yourself. Minor versions and bugfixes can be incorporated when you do your release.