This is the main reason I highly considered turning off updates as well. Twice in the last year I've had to go on-call for work to fix a critical issue some point in the late evening for Windows 10 to close all my programs, progress unsaved, without warning and spend several minutes (half an hour on one of them) doing updates.

At that point, Windows 10 became a liability, and that laptop still doesn't have automatic updates turned on anymore. (It still gets routine manual updates, but it's definitely not ideal.)