Whether it is a monitored Extension of not, it is a good idea to check out the reviews for the extension. Whenever there is a serious concern about a recent version of a extension like say for privacy, security, malware. breakage in some way or such then people are often pretty vocal about it in the reviews. Also any concerns that are breaking the extension policies can lead to the the extension update being removed and or blocked or the whole AMO page being removed and extension added to a blacklist. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-policies/