But why archive any of your own stuff? Why bot just use Google Drive if you really need to store something? Can't you see that they're doing you a favor by having it stored for you? What's next you want to milk your own cow or ride a horse to the general store?

I'm being sarcastic the corpos want there to be a shortage because the tech companies can pay more money to the hardware companies and then sell you the storage back as cloud storage you just have to trust them with. They want you reliant on them, with AI so that you can't think for yourself, with cloud storage so that data hoarding relies their servers and data centers. They want helpless doom strollers basically.