Re: Missed the wave...
If you're into drive data recovery, you already lost. It costs a fortune and is by no means guaranteed. Ask my employer, and the reason why I have the previous guy's job (he didn't back up, they lost the main RAID, the disks could only be recovered by specialist recovery, but all they could do is stitch the RAID format back, not magically resurrect the dead disks - they lost a lot).
And magnetic history is a myth that nobody has ever demonstrated. As such getting data back from an SSD is likely to be the same, if not better, than from HDD. At least with SSD they *can* be designed to warn you, to lock into read-only (whether major brands do or not is another matter), etc.
But, really, that's not even a selling point. If you sold a hard drive that said "This drive is 5% more recoverable by specialists in the case of utter drive failure", you couldn't charge anything significantly more for it. People either expect them to fail or not, depending on the usage. And by that time, your backup and redundancy procedures have totally failed and you're into thousands of pounds of expense to get one drive back.
I literally cannot think of a single thing that an ordinary-priced SSD of decent size could not win, hands-down. And the more production capacity pulled from hard drives and put into SSDs, the cheaper they will get, relatively speaking. Hell, even the density is ridiculous. I opened up an SSD recently and it was 2.5" for a start, and then inside the metal casing (which was basically just two bits of metal "popped" together) was a single board covering less than 1/3 of the surface area of even a laptop drive.
If they had wanted to, and you could afford it, they could combine multiples of those boards onto one drive and in the space of a single desktop 3.5" drive, you could fit dozens of terabytes quite easily.
The only problem is cost. Throwing their money away on HDD production is going to be their downfall. Everyone else is dialling down everything but enterprise HDDs (which just take longer to get out of the market) and ramping up SSD production. No rare gases (helium is significantly rare, nowadays, yes?), no hermetic seals (literally two bits of metal casing snapped loosely together), no high speed drive dynamics, no tiny-micron-level moving parts, no fragility of shipping.
Sorry, but any manufacturer not planning for an exclusively SSD future (until the next tech comes along) is really just burying their head in the sand.