Is an update in Cassandra not an anti pattern?

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As per Datastax documentation a read before a write in Cassandra is an anti pattern.

Whenever we use UPDATE either in CQLSH or using the Datastax drivers to set a few columns (with IFs & collection updates), does it not do a read before write first? Is that not an anti pattern? Am I missing something?

P.S I am not talking about mere UPSERTS but UPDATES on specific columns.

TIA!

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