I'm not sure how you'd justify
thousands of updates, unless you're thinking of downloading things like bodykits and wheels individually.
But how you've been playing GT5 and not having it update at least twice is baffling. Just about everyone on the planet with broadband access has updated to version 1.03. If you mean something
substantial like 50 new Premium cars or five new tracks, or new A-Spec events, or a fix to the credit or XP system, or even half of what was proposed for an online system, okay, we're all in the same boat on that. I have no clue when those kinds of updates are coming, and it's up to SONY to get on the ball to upgrade the capacity of the Playstation Network. That however is going to be a slow upgrade. MS has been working on theirs since the 90s, so SONY has some serious catching up to do.
All I know is something is coming. Limited damage has been added to online, so I know things are in the works. Let's hope that Kaz is having some people collating our complaints and suggestions, at least for our level of dissatisfaction. They did produce four magnificent games. All they need to do is to look at what they did in GT4, and do much of that as updates to GT5. And online when SONY gets sufficient server resources running.