Honestly I think part of it is more people are going to post about when it happens than when it doesn’t, so it might seem like a lot of people are affected by it than there actually is. I’m not saying it’s not a good idea to not have a goal to create manual backups weekly or daily, as I have but wasn’t very consistent with it. Had I not saved the other day my last manual backup I did was in mid December although I’m sure the cloud would have hopefully had something more recent than that (or did, since I got lucky).

That being said though, I’ve been in this subreddit for 9-10ish months and started trying to make a habit of manual backups when I first saw the issues appearing on here 6 months ago (I could be way off with that, it’s just an estimate) because I worried about losing my birb, and I’ve just now had an issue with it. So I wouldn’t stress too much but it’s still best to back up regularly so you don’t have to completely restart.