Were you using any form of encryption? (There’s a reason I ask.)
What was the brand/model of the SSD?
How was the SSD attached? Internal? External? If internal, was it part of your home/root filesystem, or a separate “storage only” filesystem?
Other than that, I feel your pain. It can’t be ignored you’re making assumptions as you attempt to relate one issue to another.
Yes. SSDs have limited writes. But theoretically, you’re looking at thousands upon thousands of write cycles.
Yes. Your SSD was “less than two years old.” However, storage media fail along a “bell curve”. Some fail quickly, while some last for ridiculously long times, while most of them fail somewhere along the curve.