I wonder if anyone would've really cared (or at least cared this much) if they just nixed the possible plans to do end to end on the entire iCloud and just did

I wonder if anyone would've really cared (or at least cared this much) if they just nixed the possible plans to do end to end on the entire iCloud and just did the scanning server-side. I probably wouldn't have started looking at other options, personally. It's somewhat funny to me that switching to a Mac and eventually to multiple Macs is what had me thinking that I could probably be fine just using Linux for my day-to-day computing that doesn't involve gaming (I've a Windows desktop for that) and now this has me thinking "yeah, I can pretty much make the switch and realistically not feel like I'm missing out on too much, anyway.".