This is a false dichotomy. Nobody is claiming that mindlessly clicking "update" guarantees safety.
I run a private fork of the bitwarden client, anyway. Their stock one partially trusts the iteration count of the PBKDF provided by the server, and can be tricked into sending a low-iteration hash of the master password.
I run a private fork of the bitwarden client, anyway. Their stock one partially trusts the iteration count of the PBKDF provided by the server, and can be tricked into sending a low-iteration hash of the master password.