Finally relented to Dell Command | Update's notifications and updated BIOS to v1.19 on my Precision 7760 (Intel Xeon W-10885M), along with Windows (10) Update.  Initially okay, but after reboot the laptop screen went dark (no power, no backlight bleed, no POST, nothing).  Through an external monitor, I saw Device Manager not registering a Monitor connected to the internal video driver (Intel(R) UHD Graphics P630), as if there was no laptop screen at all.

After many hours of diagnosing, finally downgraded to BIOS v1.18, v1.17, then back to v1.18 (without laptop screen, unable to observe the progress of BIOS flash, thus repeated a few times).  Eventually got the screen back, with the laptop showing BIOS v1.18.

In case anyone else runs into this problem.  Downgrade to BIOS v1.18, reboot and leave the laptop alone for 10 minutes to flash BIOS and various firmware.

I also disabled Dell Command | Update automatic update check for now.