[dmazzoni]

Why can't they just do it more like Microsoft security patches, making them mandatory but giving admins control over when they're deployed?

[XlA5vEKsMISoIln]

That would be equivalent to asking "would you prefer your fleet to bluescreen now, or later" in this case.

[jaggederest]

Presumably you could roll out to 1% and report issues back to the vendor before the update was applied to the last 99%. So a headache but not "stop the world and reboot" levels of hassle.

[echoangle]

With the slight difference that you can stop applying the update once you notice the bluescreens

[jajko]

Those eager would take it immediately, those conservative would wait (and be celebrated by C-suite later when SHTF). Still a much better scenario than what happened.