As I replied to you elsewhere, I feel your comment here may lead people to believe that it would cost DigitalOcean money to correct this behavior.
This is wrong, it is costing DigitalOcean money not to fix it - in terms of SSD lifetime, not TRIMing those blocks increases fragmentation of the internal physical layout of the pages of flash memory. The behavior of DigitalOcean's virtual machines has surprisingly managed to achieved the worst possible outcome. Their hardware is being misused and their customer's data is being mishandled.
This is wrong, it is costing DigitalOcean money not to fix it - in terms of SSD lifetime, not TRIMing those blocks increases fragmentation of the internal physical layout of the pages of flash memory. The behavior of DigitalOcean's virtual machines has surprisingly managed to achieved the worst possible outcome. Their hardware is being misused and their customer's data is being mishandled.