The author thinks the changelog is important and that their customers should read it, even going as far as adding it as a forced pop-up. Arguably, that’s quite a hostile form of changelog.

It’s great to have changelogs available but your customers absolutely don’t care about them, especially if they are not corporate customers. The article author has a lot of pride in each release: genuinely a wonderful thing, but not anything that is relevant to the person at the other end.

That’s why so many apps on the App Store have change logs that say something like “Thanks for using our app.” They wouldn’t even release a changelog if they weren’t forced to do so by the platform and their customers’ devices update in their sleep. They’d never see a changelog even if a detailed one existed.