I don’t think it would be that hard to build an update system where not everyone gets updates at once, and you wait for consensus among early adopters before forcing it on the remaining users.
No amount of early adopters will ever have full coverage of what people actually have, in part because the people who need reliability are not likely to be early adopters in the first place.
I wish home appliances all used the same form factor for controller boards for these smart appliances. Like a socket for a raspberry pi (instead of a hat).
Had to replace my dishwasher because the controls shorted out.
A motor or the display could just as easily burn out, but this article is about software problems, which you could fix with a workalike board.