Happened to me years ago with a Windows 10 update which made it crash all the time on my desktop. Reinstall didn't help because the installation image of course already included the update so it was broken from the start. I don't use Windows anymore either, its stability was the one feature that had kept me from switching away for years.
I've had Windows updates brick the motherboard by installing a faulty BIOS update. Multiple times.
Windows also loves installing garbage drivers by default. I remember it was obsessed with installing an AMD GPU driver update )that only ever showed a black screen on boot) since it was newer than the working version I was using. I disabled the driver updates (this option in buried in a sub-dialog of a classic control panel option at the time) but since it had previously sniffed out that the driver existed it obsessively continued to download and install it in the background, re-bricking the install. None of the guides on clearing the download cache seemed to be able to convince it to give up, I eventually just reinstalled the OS without and internet connection and disabled the option before running updates.