He wasn't successful at anything.
He slashed the corporate income tax and due to an effective amnesty on repatriation many large MNCs brought stashed offshore cash and cut R&D to register massive earnings for his last 2 years.
Ironically, this started to dry up right around Q1 2020... Then COVID drowned out everything.
His response was to just pump $4T to employers with almost no documentation, thank god we didn't see a massive wave in inflation out of that.
ZFS, hands down, it doesn't even begin to hurt the SSDs, it's basically the best choice, just try to not fill the whole volumes or it starts thrashing like crazy.
ZFS has encryption, but LUKS is fine too.
I've run Raidz2 for well over a decade, never had data loss that wasn't extremely my fault, and I recovered from that almost immediately from backed up snapshot.