I use them in all of my vehicles, my 99 Dodge diesel has 310k miles on it, burns no oil.
Restrictive air filters will suck oil past the compressor seal on a turbo or valve guides on a N/A engine, and crappy air filters will allow enough particulate through that by 310,000 miles, you'll be burning oil.
The key words are "restrictive" and "crappy". Plenty of non-K&N filters that exceed those criteria.
And I've seen morons who don't know what a K&N oil-based filter even is on a land vehicle who allow them to get dirty enough to be quite "restrictive".
Change the regular ones at proper intervals and they do just fine.
I have a K&N in the Yukon and a competitors clone on the Dodge diesel. But I like to tinker and someone else bought them for better airflow on those engines for specific reasons. I didn't buy them. On the Yukon the benefit without changing the engine programming is marginal at best. On the Dodge the former owner also added a computer that can demand far more airflow than the stock engine programming would ever ask for. Lots more fuel, lots more boost. It makes sense on there.
If anything, an oil-based on the 182 would be more restrictive than the fuzzy plastic thing they come with. Probably plug up and become "restrictive" faster in a dirty environment too.
And the fuzzy plastic Brillo pad thing on the 182 definitely filters dirt ok, or we wouldn't have seen a rise in silicon at Blackstone when some FOD cut a tiny hole in ours.
Any filter sitting on the face of the cowl like that one is, can easily suffer the same fate and be rendered inop. Replacing the fancy branded one just adds a higher cost.
Doesn't seem like a good investment to me. Just sayin'. Not for the reasons given anyway. And not on my specific engine with where it's mounted. Maybe useful if one were operating off of dirt and willing to clean it often.