Just a shower thought since usb flash drives seem to be over complicated for what they are compared to what fits on a sliver of micro sd plastic. The pcb isn’t just usb controller bits right? Doesn’t seem to add up.
https://www.delkin.com/technology/flash-endurance/
Anyways this is what I’ve found, small writes seem to destroy nand much faster than writing as pages, but I guess the question is which flash drives write in which modes and how could we ever find out.
I wonder if on average usb flash drives have better controllers than sd cards.