You just described >90% of users. Everyone does this for something, most people do it for most things.
You minimally read the docs, get something working and then leave it alone. Of course you're going to be pissed off when an implicit assumption which has been stable for a long time is broken.
Turns out scripts contain download an archive from github and check against a hardcoded checksum copy&pasted into that script. All of those broke. None of the authors will have looked up exactly how github had calculated said checksum.
