Rather than whether the user is technical or non-technical, I feel it's more how it is implemented. A discreet notification icon in the app may be far more acceptable than a warning dialog box that appears every time Joplin is started and needs the user to click a button to get rid of it.
@uxamanda and @ajay discussed plugin updates last year. It looks like they never managed to get started on it but the initial post proposing the idea did get a reasonable number of "likes".