"make autoloads" asks a question

[Eli Zaretskii]

If you have several dired.el~N~ files in your lisp/ directory, and
dired-x.el or dired-aux.el were modified, then "make autoloads" will
will update dired.el, and Emacs will ask a question about deleting
excess backup versions of dired.el, when it is about to save dired.el.

At least on MS-Windows, the question is not shown, but Emacs still
waits for a single character.

Is it appropriate for Emacs to ask this question in this context?
Should batch-update-autoloads bind version-control to `never', to
avoid this?