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Some people are just accident magnets though. He certainly sounds like one.
Plenty of people do long distance riding on carbon bikes with low spoke counts. See Mike Hall's recent efforts (RTW, Tour Divide, etc). Sure there might be some survivorship bias in that though.
Being able to go slightly faster (especially uphill) for the same effort means the same distance in less time, which gives more recovery time.
It's a trade-off between speed, distance and recovery time.
You might be able to do two or three consecutive days doing 300km in ~8 hours (slightly lower than a good 100 mile TT pace) but you've got no chance of recovering to put that effort in day after day.