I've been watching through a series of a guy fixing game consoles with electrical issues ( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPPvwjMj29nAmcOq0Pn3zHkHxX35xfeGG&si=iZGmINLNDHUQbYEO) and WOW the Xbox Series X/S has some weird issues.

If the SATA connector is bad on the optical drive, updates will fail to install.
Not updates off discs, mind you. Ones downloaded from the internet

Before you continue to YouTube

@foone at this point it gets hard to tell if it's sheer incompetence that causes this or malicious intention