Yes.
As I mentioned previously a good amount of pages back, I disabled it because it's most likely not necessary, and it actually confuses some users. And because I'm a "hardcore" dev, I can't word things in a way that most users can easily understand, which results in some awkward questions like "will the presence (or lack of) the anti-wear patch brick my 3DS, and do I have to re-patch?".
To my end-user interpretation of your explanation, it basically means that activating the anti-wear patch just prolongs your 3DS wi-fi chip lifespan. Due to the way the DS mode is handled, it's designed to eventually fail once the chip is unable to write itself over with the information it needs to rewrite upon every DS mode boot. Correct?
As in, it won't brick the 3DS's DS mode if it's not activated, but if you do enable it, you'll preserve your DS wi-fi chip.