My gut feeling is that this is an error of the reporting tool - or perhaps more specifically, an interpretation of the results. I think it is highly likely tha

My gut feeling is that this is an error of the reporting tool - or perhaps more specifically, an interpretation of the results. I think it is highly likely that these accesses are hitting some sort of cache (possibly page files, or SRAM, etc), not actually hitting the actual TLC/QLC part of the storage. Obviously I could be wrong, but I’d be surprised if Apple made this big of a mistake and didn’t catch it internally before now. If they did, then there are some serious quality issues in their process.