You can still access your contacts, but if you (somehow?) updated the Google backup version, and then Google went down before your phone sync'd, you wouldn't be

You can still access your contacts, but if you (somehow?) updated the Google backup version, and then Google went down before your phone sync'd, you wouldn't be able to access the updated version. So I guess if you update contacts via changing the server side version instead of on your phone then it might be a problem? That's pretty edge case to me.