I didn’t check back in on this post, but now that I have, would you care to expound on your “evil little person” comment? I suppose there may be exceptions, but as an IT professional, I’ve found that more often than not, driver updates are very useful and should be performed in most cases.
I have found that an unsettling percentage of the time driver updates will cause more problems than they fix. I was the unfortunate first discoverer of a bug in an update that rendered a program I was using inoperable.