Why the limitations? - only 45 days of media - link lost if inactive for 30 / 45 days - max 5 devices Is it because of reliance on the network to provide th

Why the limitations? - only 45 days of media - link lost if inactive for 30 / 45 days - max 5 devices Is it because of reliance on the network to provide these features? I used ICQ decades ago and I could back up everything and move it to a different computer, I can still search the message archives to this day, and there weren't these silly artificial limits. Why has chat regressed?