If we’re talking personal experience, then in the 15-odd years I’ve had to deal with Windows updates, I have suffered numerous system-breaking issues that have resulted in the loss of money and productive time. In the last 7 years of working with Macs I have not suffered a single minute of lost productivity due to updates.

Professional users are of course better off deferring updates that aren’t critical security patches regardless of what platform they are on, but this is an article for general audiences and I trust that professional users already have formal policy around update management.