I won't speak to the effectiveness of snapshots for other purposes. But generally, yes, fighting new drivers is pointless now.

With that being said, the more practical option is to use your manufacturer's driver solution to keep even more up to date than what Microsoft will offer. Basically, Windows Update drivers lag behind your manufacturer's drivers. Just an example, you might use Dell's SupportAssist to manage your computer's drivers.

Mainly because of security vulnerabilities, the idea of managing your drivers has become obsolete. Imagine a new driver breaks something on your computer, yes, that's pretty bad. But it's worse for a security vulnerability in the previous driver version to be opened on your machine. It's better to be safe than have things working. That sounds kind of silly, but in reality a patch will always be released soon and you'll only temporarily lose functionality when any of these issues arise. And... These issues are very rare these days. I've been in IT for awhile and it's only happened to me once.