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I would think you could put /usr on a separate disk just fine, as long as it was available to mount at boot time.
How small is your SSD that you're trying weird stuff to save space? Even in the tens of gigs should be enough to run Ubuntu. I just checked two full desktop systems, and they are 32 and 24 GB used for the root partition.
I'm just irresponsible with installing software on my desktop machine. It's a 50g partition but I use it for music, software development, and some games (looking at you flightgear) which eventually add up. I've been slowly moving pieces of the setup onto a 3tb rust gyroscope with mostly success. Luckily this blunder was recoverable and I'm back to where I was before