Yes, but the point is that this is "business as usual" with flash, nothing new. Wear levelling methods were patented at least as early as 1991, and FTL drivers were available for Linux at least by the late 90's to handle "dumb" flash that didn't have their own wear levelling built in.
I absolutely agree with your other point of sticking to older, well tested drives,
Each generation adds new features to the SSD firmware that I don't necessarily need, that will change wear-leveling (and other such details).
Then 6 months later, we learn that Sandisk Extreme was the drive with the messed up firmware. Or the "Slow Reads" from the Samsung 840.