@janne @marcan one of the many, yes.
There's big lists of adapters and their various quirks.
The Pi community also often manually disallows UASP for broken converters via "usb-storage.quirks=" cmdline...
I recently bought a USB3 3.5" sata enclosure where the JMicron chip would just overheat and then hang. After removing the case and adding one of those Pi heatsinks, it managed to keep working. *sigh*