I have a folder of MP3s, some of which date back to 1999, just a few years after the format was popularised. Most of them have utterly terrible names (think RIDEONAM.MP3). I think at this point they might even survive the heat death of the universe. And they’ll still be terribly-organised.
You’re not entirely wrong. Look, if you want to run your own nextcloud with a VPS, then have at it. IDGAF. My point is, don’t just leave things locally. That’s all I’m saying. If y’all want to argue about which cloud is more ethical than the next, leave me out of it. Average Joe ain’t using something like IronMountain for offsite. Average Joe probably won’t also know how to encrypt their data but I would say doing that helps and I do that with my own keys before uploading it to something like mega.io