This type of problem has occurred with this driver since 2013 and having no problems and then getting problems after there has been a kernel update seems to be par for the course for this driver. Other drivers don’t seem to suffer when the same kernel update occurs so it looks like something is not so well written for this driver.
Please see these posts covering the same issue and some giving fixes.
https://community.ipfire.org/t/e10001-detected-hardware-unit-hang/13414
https://community.ipfire.org/t/green-and-blue-network-down-since-upgrade-core-190/13419
https://community.ipfire.org/t/e1000e-green0-detected-hardware-unit-hang/6324