It depends on the use case, I have a dozen or so Pi's, one, which was logging hundreds of lines a second and loading/executing lots of code/config had cards die

It depends on the use case, I have a dozen or so Pi's, one, which was logging hundreds of lines a second and loading/executing lots of code/config had cards die every other week, others with less load have had no issues at all. First I used Samsung cards, it eat a bunch of those for breakfast, then I switched to SanDisk, which did the same. They all failed the same way; permanent read-only state. The problem is that some did so silently, for weeks the pi was writing things to it, but none of the data was lost until a reboot, where the FS instantly travelled back in time.