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For what it's worth, in my day job we deploy bios updates via windows update to our fleet of about 175 computers and have for years and have never once run into an issue.
Bios updates are not the scary thing people like to make them out to be.
FTFY
bios updating the hba (array controller) on your primary sql server during a 30 min maintenance window at 2am is still a bit never wracking.
But yeah, pushing out bios updates to desktops/laptops has become a near-non issue. That combined with the decline in device cost and the rise in backup and cloud-based apps make replacing a died-during-update machine a lot less onerous.