Whats the purpose for the Application Manager?

Here's what I'd LIKE the application manager to do:
I use the Adobe Creative Cloud.  This was advertised as a service where you go to always get the latest Adobe software so everything is kept up to date. I assumed this to mean that the patches that come out occasionally would be monitored and put on the cloud to install. (NOT TRUE.  Patches aren't tracked or offered for download.)
Then, it seems to me that the Application Manager would look at whats on the cloud and whats on your machine, and if you're not up to date on something, it notifies you and asks if you want to update, then does it.
But, it doesn't do any of this!  It just prevents me from installing ANY PATCHES to any software and making me reinstall itself which doesn't do any good.
I don't get it.  This whole Creative Cloud and Application Manager is an EPIC FAILURE.
Get it right, guys!  You're the 900 lb. gorillas in creative software.  Surely you can figure this stuff out.

Not necessarily. I'm a tech person so I usually like having the latest ang greatest version of the software that I'm using. So if you're happy with 4.3 and it's not crashing or causing errors then feel free to keep using it.
You can always try 4.7 and if you don't like it uninstall it and reinstall 4.3   
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