I'm having a very difficult time understanding why they are a negative at all for most use cases. It's not like running a backup monopolizes the machine you're

I'm having a very difficult time understanding why they are a negative at all for most use cases. It's not like running a backup monopolizes the machine you're running it on. Again, tapes are for archival storage. Not nearline, not live, archival. As in, you write the data and likely don't come back to it for months to years.