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i think that's overgeneralizing.

I've met plenty of people who are chill/laid back but also incredibly productive. In fact, the best project manager I've ever had was this dude named Matt. I was an IT contractor working at a large bank that had to replace over 10k windows desktops in under a year or face millions in compliance fines. Matt was the project manager for the entire rollout and I never once saw him visibly stressed. On top of that despite being the top of the totem poll he was always incredibly approachable and remembered everyone's names, even low tier techs like me. The project finished ahead of schedule and he took us all our for 5 star steaks at the end, which he paid for with his own card so we could all get alcohol (some weird contracting rules about full time employees from using the company card to buy contractors alcohol).

How did you access the restore point? Through an external recovery media? If you got into the OS via safe mode or some other built in recovery method your PC wasn't bricked.

I'm not trying to be difficult, but I don't want other people looking for fixes to be mislead into thinking they might literally ruin their computers.

It'd be helpful if you shared your exact steps.

I have no idea, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I have a sneaking suspicion its a broken interaction between Unreal engine and windows audio drivers in general. Stuttering has been pervasive across UE5 games for a long time now, I'm really curious to see what would happen if I went back and tried other UE5 games with different audio driver versions. Something like the engine waiting on a response from the audio driver before performing some action which leads to stuttering.

Do you mean frozen? "Bricked" means its completly ruined, i.e. basically a "brick". Updating drivers alone can't brick your PC, there have to be underlying causes beyond that.

if you're stuck and can't even boot into windows try booting into safe mode, then reinstalling device drivers manually one by one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/ui3orx/snappy_driver_installer_vs_origin/

Also, if you download Snappy Driver Origin through the Scoop command line tool it is guaranteed to give you the correct version. Scoop is an open source platform for distributing software tools, everything in the distribution buckets are audited by a bunch of people. It's the method I used and I've had zero issues.