Why does 1password still install to the user’s local application directory?

Mousit Automatic updates can be disabled in v8, but they are no big deal and no real risk. I use the nightly update channel and literally every day a new update is available. 1Password will update on app restart and asks for restart once it detects an update.

In the one year of nightly channel usage and daily update, there was never a version that crashed or had broken functionality that prevented me from using 1Password and accessing my passwords. What 1Password delivers as nightly and unstable is actually more stable than releases of many other software.

I usually install updates of all kind of apps the day they are released. If there is a change I don't like, I have the choice of eternally postponing and keep an obsolete app experience, or to adapt as fast as possible and stay current. I choose to adapt and stay current. That was a conscious decision. From my experience from the last 10 years with this behavior of mine, updates that appear to be bad at first sight usually turn out as improvement in the long run, if you adapt your workflow and actually use changed functionality instead of working around it.
So either I use the current version of any software, or I don't use the software (any more).