You can never be sure. Regressions do happen.
First evaluate it on your test setup.
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Some fs can do snapshotting (btrfs, zfs,...). Second best would be a current backup to restore from.
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I'm running it for about a year and I never noticed any instability. To fair Android app did not always work well.
Nevertheless I never had a problem with updating it once every couple of months. Changlog and upgrade instructions always covered everything.
You will never know when breaking changes will happen, that's why I wouldn't recommend an auto update.
But that's why we have semantic versioning. Automatically apply minor versions and fixes, but notify for major versions.
Immich obviously does not follow semantic versioning when 2.0 is to be considered the first stable version.
Or you can be a happy user, as it is using semver since version 2.0.0
This is why I switched to ZFS with sanoid+ syncoid. Any breaking update or data corruption can be rolled back, giving you the freedom to auto-update with minimal risk.