The issue, in this case, is more about Crowdstrike’s broad usage than Microsoft’s. The update that crippled everything was to the Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor software, not to the OS.
Funnily enough, they had a similar issue with an update to the Linux version of the software a few months ago, that didn’t have these broad-reaching consequences largely due to the smaller Linux user base. Which means this is starting to look like a pattern, and there are going to need to be some serious process changes at Crowdstrike to prevent things like this in the future.