It may have, I didn't really HN much at the time. On the other hand, for 'business' cases it was way, way easier to deal with than FTP, at least at the time.

It may have, I didn't really HN much at the time. On the other hand, for 'business' cases it was way, way easier to deal with than FTP, at least at the time. When dropbox was coming into vogue, I was working as a 'drafter' that happened to spend more than half of his time coding AutoLISP routines and doing larger automation/tooling efforts via VBA and C#. (Ironically, I didn't really do VBA for Excel but did do some C# for it[0]) But outside of all that, I was working in an environment with a lot of 'construction' folks. The 'Ask them to open internet explorer and they click on their AOL icon'[1] types. To say nothing of an IT department that required a lot of ceremony and wait-time to open up IP addresses for FTP use. Dropbox was a godsend. The UX was easy enough for the contractors to use, the IT department was overall fairly accepting of it, and frankly I thought it was great even if I made similar comments to my father about it when he asked me about "the cloud". All of that said, I do think it did get enshittified at some point, but I don't remember when or what it was. [0] - Bentley was, to my understanding, one of the few (only?) non-microsoft companies to have VBA support for their application. While the first things I wrote for it were in VBA (because I wasn't allowed to have VS at first,) after a certain point I was down to just a couple routines that were somehow faster to do in VBA than via the C# COM wrapper. Versus Excel, everything was VSTO. [1] - Actual phone call with a subcontractor.