Comment 7 for bug 1619188

Because most inexpensive modern USB drives will be able to handle that amount of space without problems, I believe changing the default upgrade method would be a drawback.

For example a Kingston 32GB USB 3.0 drive costs as little as 8€, and a Sandisk 8GB USB 2.0 drive costs 3€. The official Ubuntu USB drive has 32GB and costs 6£.

Upgrading automatically is a better default for at least 95% of situations, and the person could still easily realise that they should disable automatic upgrades when having a small vintage USB drive. Moreover the Startup Disk Creator no longer has persistence, so the likelihood of a novel user making that mistake is minimum.

For the moment I will consider this report as an opinion, but feel free to bring the conversation to the Quality mailing list at (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testing). Thanks for your always welcomed help and understanding.