People are very, very bad when it comes to proactively mitigating low probability disasters. It is not that it is complicated, although you might underestimate the challenge of having a decent and updated backup that can be restored to the layman inundated with a deluge of commercial offerings trying to outdo each other on interface obtuseness.
We seem to instinctively err on the side of avoiding any short term cost, no matter how potentially grave the consequences in the future if the probability of those becomes low or obfuscated.
You can see this not just in backups, but in lifestyle choices, business decisions, construction, natural resources, financial speculation ...
Any situation where you can say "it does not happen often, but if it does the results will be catastrophic", you can bet that the risks will be unhedged.
Heck, my kids are theoretically engineers (at least their degree says so!), but even buying BackBlaze for them, I can't even get them to hit Ctrl-S from time-to-time. I think their mom must have fucked the milkman, because she is smarter than this herself...
We seem to instinctively err on the side of avoiding any short term cost, no matter how potentially grave the consequences in the future if the probability of those becomes low or obfuscated.
You can see this not just in backups, but in lifestyle choices, business decisions, construction, natural resources, financial speculation ...
Any situation where you can say "it does not happen often, but if it does the results will be catastrophic", you can bet that the risks will be unhedged.