[amlib]

You can fix this issue by using a wine "bottle manager" like... Bottles. This allows you to easily manage multiple instances of wine installations (like having multiple windows installations) with better and easy to use tooling around it. More importantly, it also allows you to select across many system agnostic versions of wine that won't be upgraded automatically thus reducing the possibility of something that you rely breaking on you.

[trelane]

Or pony up for CodeWeavers. Their code goes into WINE, and they are (the?) major WINE devs. They've had bottles for years, if not decades now.

[amlib]

I used to a long time ago but even back then I was getting more value out of q4wine (a defunct project now) than from CodeWeavers stuff. Granted, I was perhaps too "enthusiast" using git versions of wine with staging patches and my own patches rolled into it, so q4wine (and I guess now Bottles) more DIY approach won me over.

That all said, I haven't tried CodeWeavers in almost 10 years so it might have improved a lot.

[guappa]

No, if wine itself breaks a bottle won't save you.