You can directly boot a Pi from USB now with the Pi 4. Switch to a SSD and you won't worry about SD card corruption as much. The bigger issue is that you need

You can directly boot a Pi from USB now with the Pi 4. Switch to a SSD and you won't worry about SD card corruption as much. The bigger issue is that you need to cleanly shutdown any embedded system instead of just yanking or hard cutting power--flash memory and filesystems need time to sync. The Pi is no more or no less susceptible to this problem. Also you're comparing to a tablet, a device with a _built in battery_ that prevents hard power loss in 99% of circumstances. Just because you press the power button on your tablet does not mean it is immediately cutting power to the device. If you add a battery backup and soft power switch to the Pi you would be just as reliable as a tablet. If you remove the battery from a tablet and hard cut the power, you can just as easily corrupt its flash memory filesystem.