I enter the automatic update configuration from gui and enable it.
I click on OK - it closes as if everything was fine.

I enter the automatic update configuration again and I see it is disabled - so
all my changes were disregarded

So I switch to console yast.

I enable auto update in the config - click ok and now i get prompted to trust
pgp keys for certain repos.

After having dont that and and reruning the console yast auto update config
again I see that now the changes persisted.
I now tried to lunch gui version and it also shows auto update as enabled.

I tired to disable this feature in gui to check if gui yast can do it. It
failed t apply changes again.

COnclusion:
FOr some reason gui yast auto update config fails to save that the feature is
enabled or disabled.