More and more people are realizing that what you are talking about as lacking are actually useful features. Because they are easy to reason about, because they

More and more people are realizing that what you are talking about as lacking are actually useful features. Because they are easy to reason about, because they leave a trail, because everyone can work on their own stuff without impacting everyone at once. The collaboration "features" are mostly gimmick that very few people really use since realistically work is divided into easily separated parts before that. If one is building a document in real-time, there is a good chance that it is better done with one operator taking input from others instead of a free for all. Sharing current work in progress was something trivial to do with a server 20 years ago, none of the cloud software really improved on that, they mostly changed the ownership/responsibility and added an OS sync layer. They seem convenient until you get into problems either at the input or output and then they really look less ideal. When you add costs, they make little sense for most people actually. Storage is cheap and doesn't need electricity all the time, if you carry it with you, its transfer speed is infinitely better than any good internet connection. For most parts backup are foolish arguments for the vast majority of people, business needs it to edge against risk (in order to avoid losing too much money) or for legal reasons. But people mostly don't; and most don't really care, rightfully. The vast majority of people do not have anything of actual value in their computers, just sentimental stuff. Before, when you sent photos for development you were not putting backups into a vault, even though they might age poorly, get lost in a move or burn in a house fire. People don't do that because while the risk exists, it would just be a sad but inconsequential loss, it is exactly the same for computer stuff, no matter what some geeks seem to think. It's all right to spend a bit of money every 10 years or so to make a copy of what is relevant on external storage but beyond that most backups would be waste of time and money for most people. And it's hilarious that you talk about hyperlink when link rot is one of the biggest problems ever. Beyond a year it's anyone guess the value of a link; you might get lucky or not. In contrast, a file in storage will be there unless deleted and it doesn't matter if it's not the ultra-latest version or whatever, at least you have something and not just a thing that points to nowhere.