Of course you’re allowed to do what you want, but it does not seem like OP is completely in tune with why nodes update the way they do, and when. That’s fine, but if you don’t know what you’re doing, perhaps you should not be running quality assurance nodes. They will inevitably be in a state where the quality is not assured 
Regarding a production node … it’s a node that’s not used for testing. Is that unclear, or are you just trying to poke holes in my ever so hardened defence of the StorJ mentality? 