Every new implementation and upgrade is a great thing.

No, no it's not. This is an example of a tiny temporary patch that is actually kind of embarrassing. These kind of patches should be framed like "We've temporarily patched DrugWars to auto-refresh after certain actions until we can patch all of the issues causing users to have to refresh the page." There are MANY updates and upgrades in software that aren't great. Some of them actually make things worse. But you make your choices in what to do with an application given what you can figure out to do in the time that is given.