This is the standard behaviour for WordPress 5.1. WordPress didn’t automatically update to major versions prior to 5.6 (5.2, 5.3 etc. are major versions). You were updated to 5.1.16 because a security update was just released and those are often back-ported to previous major versions so that they can be applied without updating to a major version.
The official documentation on automatic updates, and how to control them, is available here:
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/configuring-automatic-background-updates/
It’s also worth nothing that 5.1 is 11 major versions behind, so I would advise updating as soon as possible.
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