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Sorry that happened to you.
The distro developers should implement a solution so that updating without enough space doesn't break your system. They could prevent the update or at least warn you that there's not enough space and bad things can happen.
There are warnings so my bet is that there is an edge case where
so basically concurrency that makes it unpredictable, except if apt was the only process writing on the filesystem (which it never is).
There is a set of warnings for apt which run those calculations and warn the user if there isn't enough space.