"Writing to flash is destructive. If a filesystem repeatedly writes to the same block, eventually that block will wear out. Filesystems that don't take wear into account can easily burn through blocks used to store frequently updated metadata and cause a device's early death."
This isn't true. It's only true for filesystems that aren't running on a regular block storage device. It's even more egregious to use the word block because almost everyone assumes that means a logical block. They must be using it to mean a NAND page, which has entirely different behavior and does wear out.