This seems like a dead-end, so I have reported the issue on the Armbian forum for my board (ODroid XU4, of which my ODroid HC1 is a variant.) Link:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/59928-bug-btrfs-hits-16t-page-cache-limit-on-1t-drive/ -- Aaron Bugher
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