I understand why you might want to refresh your package cache independently of performing an update.
But why does Apt effectively force you to do two commands just to update?
If my package cache is three weeks old then I'm going to need to do an update before an upgrade, because otherwise packages aren't there. So an update on its own is pointless. It's just going to try and update to non-existent packages.
Yum, DNF and Zypper all have the sense to fetch the latest package list.
Before moving to debian stable, I was long accustomed to systems which sometimes pushed updates which for my purposes seemed better left for others to try first. So for me it's still three steps rather than two: Update the package index, decide which ones to install, and then do the upgrade.
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