But my point was that not all SD cards are made the same and lots of the tech-literate here on HN don't seem to know that. "SD cards are not reliable" as a blan

But my point was that not all SD cards are made the same and lots of the tech-literate here on HN don't seem to know that. "SD cards are not reliable" as a blanket statement is false. You have to research to find out which ones are the best and use those, then you don't need to do weird workarounds like read-only filesystems and running from a RAM disk, you can just use the Pi like a normal computer.