No I am not saying that. I don't know how you could have come to that conclusion.

Both the Play Store and the Play Services updates automatically in the background. The only control one has is if you want to restrict it to wifi only for the update.

I have seen multiple times where the Play Services crashed and shortly after reporting it, I would see my Antivirus application pop up a notification saying that the Play Services was safe to open. Therefore I believe the Play Services crashed because It in use either by itself or for another application when the phone was also updated the app. To complete the update, the application had to be forcibly stopped which likely in turn caused the crash.