I heard from a lot of people that it's better to store the game and update as separate and not keep them as merged together.. What's the reason for this?
The only reason I could think of is the update could mess the game somehow so it could be worse than non-updated version. Could that be the reason? Do you think of anything else?
The only reason I could think of is the update could mess the game somehow so it could be worse than non-updated version. Could that be the reason? Do you think of anything else?

idk, i just keep my rips merged from now on. only thing i can see that not having the update merged would be good for is using cheats/trainers, if someone made cheats for a certain lower version.