I've had to turn off a lot of automatic updates on my PC, after a long effort to get copies of the earlier drivers and reinstall them. It may be that the new drivers made some game (that I don't play anyway) run faster, but they screwed up somewhere along the line and other vital aspects no longer worked. It's a well-known problem, documented in various places around the internet.
I could keep trying the latest release, to see if they've fixed the instability yet, but it's easier to leave the updates "off", because then the PC "just works".
All updates are now reviewed by me, to see what they do, before they are allowed in. Many are to fix problems that aren't relevant to me anyway.
The worst, by far, seem to be Apple ones for iTunes (which I use), and two other apps that I don't use and would really like to get rid of. Those updates are massive, and insist on churning up my SSD and parking their stuff on it despite being told not to. I'm getting close to setting up the old PC out in the workshop as the "Apple server" for the iThings. Daughter 2 offered me her old iMac for the purpose, but when she told me how often it broke down (which is why she retired it) I declined her kind offer.
Happily, I've not had any problems with my Kindle. It's the old cheapie basic model, and trundles happily on. I load it up with stuff before we go on holiday, and it keeps me quiet for the week.