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As a data point, the Linux kernel has a long list of workarounds for "ata" related devices (SSDs, HDDs, etc):

Can be a bit eye opening to look down that and see equipment you're using listed. ;)

This seems to be the same thing for NVMe devices (eg Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Kingston, ADATA, Intel, (etc) NVMe drives):

Not quite as easy to read and understand as the ata driver code though.

With the occasional further device specific workarounds in other parts of the code.

eg for specific Toshiba, LiteON, and Kioxia devices:

While this seems to be special handling for Samsung X5 SSD external drives, and also Samsung 970 Evo Plus drives:

What's horkage?

Brokenness.