I run my pi-hole on a dedicated Pi, and I pull the updated image first without any trouble. Then after the updated image is pulled, recreating the container only takes a few seconds.

Dunno what’s broken about your setup, but it definitely sounds like something unusual to me.

The best part is that a good faith answer to the question is surprisingly trans affirming

I almost instinctively downvoted you

The solution for me is that I run Nextcloud on a Kubernetes cluster and pin a container version. Then every few months I update that version in my deployment yaml to the latest one I want to run, and run kubectl apply -f nextcloud.yml and it just does its thing. Never given me any real trouble.