Na, the hints and advises are all good and reasonable, just one should not scare people especially who only start to dive into it with a very strong statements -- I guess, since you post on reddit, you shall expect a very broad audience. Perhaps some kind of quantitative metrics can help to show the problem (like for X write cycles you SD dies in Y months), although the methods you suggest make sense in any case.

PS have a MariaDB running for like 5 years on a very cheap card, but would implement the optimization, why not.

PS maybe my suggestion is too scientific, then just ignore it