Safe to upgrade?

I'm new to OCLP this year and My first install went smoothly and had Sequoia on my mid 2015 imac. I was working perfectly for about 2 weeks, then I get a popup that had an update to the os (not tahoe) I updated it then everything stopped working. I ended up renstalling sequoia from scratch again. Now i just got a notification of an update and I really don't want to install all of my apps again. Is this safe it upgrade or should I just stick to my working os? TYIA.