Anyone experience a Sonoma 14.1.1 update failure?

I am scared to update my M1 MBP due to the failure I encountered with the Monterey 12.6 to 12.7 update. That procedure bricked my MBP, requiring me to travel 40 miles to the nearest Apple Store. When I got there, the person ahead of me had the same exact problem, and it turns out, so did a lot of people. The only way they could "revive" my MBP was to install Sonoma. I did not want to do that because of my music studio software compatibility, but it was forced. To downgrade back to Monterey was going to be a several day project, creating an external boot/install drive and completely erasing and then rebuilding my entire studio, much of which has a limited number of authorizations associated with virtual instruments and plugins. I decided I'd live with Sonoma and hope everything works.

I've now seen 2 updates to Sonoma, but am Very concerned a similar update failure may happen. On the other hand, I want the bug fixes and optimization. I've seen a couple YouTube vids with the title; 14.1 update stuck.

Can anyone shed light on this issue? The 12.6 to .7 was not a fluke. So many MBP users ended up at the Apple Store to revive their Macs. Help! How can I be confident in any updates at this point?