Otherwise the update process as currently described does nothing because conda simply prints that Spyder is already installed.
Using a specific version prevents conda from updating the entire environment, which is what happens when you run conda update spyder. Instead, this makes conda only update Spyder to the requested version.
I understand that this would require us to update this command from time to time, but Anaconda takes now from three to six months to update Spyder, so I don't think that's a big issue.
I noticed this when updating one of our bot messages to close a recurrent bug that shows up in the Spyder version that comes with Anaconda 2022.05. My idea was to point to our docs instead so that more users learn about them.
conda update spyder. Instead, this makes conda only update Spyder to the requested version.