Quote Originally Posted by Stanman View Post
short term nothing but long term not a good idea to do lots of writes to the flash as over time it degrades, perhaps not to the level you might notice in the short term but why take the risk.
Using Picons does not involve a lot of writing: only when installing/updating them. So no worries there.
Even after flashing many hundreds of times, including the use of picons, won't wear your flash memory.