I think I have finally tracked down the cause of corruption to various important components of the OS. Oh well, at least I'm learning more about the OS which could be useful to me in the future.
Microsoft will deny this update caused corruption within end user's systems and will blame it on everything else but components of their own OS, most especially Windows Update. The only problem with this: thousands of users have reported massive corruption not only to the Component Store, but also within the DISM and System File Checker utilities.