That was the defacto state of things up until windows 10 moved to a forced update model. In that world we regularly had massive malware waves and resultant mass

That was the defacto state of things up until windows 10 moved to a forced update model. In that world we regularly had massive malware waves and resultant massive botnets constantly disrupting critical infrastructure. We moved away from that for a reason. And the real fix is to make updates not take down the whole system. When was the last time every Linux system in the world was unable to boot all at the same time? Even the crowdstrike issue only took down a very limited subset of installs and the blast radius is far more minimal due to the linux kernel being a lot more sane and cautious.