It's practically impossible for "most of them" to be the best, these apps weren't designed by unicorns. And your example is a good illustration: the solution to

It's practically impossible for "most of them" to be the best, these apps weren't designed by unicorns. And your example is a good illustration: the solution to the backup issue suggested in the post doesn't do away with versioned backups (neither does the other approach linked), so the lack of VCS doesn't explain this bad default