I agree. I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption. Eventually I got a NanoPC T4 with built in eMMC and it’s been tugging along for a good 2 years with zero issues.
Quite possibly! Flash memory is absolutely not all the same. I wish someone would do for SD cards what Backblaze does for hard drives.
Oddly enough, Samsung, SanDisk, and Sony are the three brands I've had die on me. I had a GoPro eat two Sony cards in less than a year, I switched to SanDisk Endurance and it's been plugging along for about 2 years now. I've had one Samsung and a couple SanDisk SD cards die in Raspberry Pi's. I'm currently using MicroCenter, AData and one other lower tier brand that have held up much better than the name brands.
The Pi themselves don't die because of a SD corruption. Only the SD cards do (and they can be recovered).