> but there’s been a market failure where operating system vendors left the users to fend for themselves
I don't think this is an accident. These companies want you to hand all your data over to them so they can mine it for data, increase your reliance on them, and/or on paying them reoccurring fees to backup your precious files. They have a real financial inventive to make protecting your data without handing it over them very difficult, just like hard drive manufacturers have an incentive to sell you garbage drives you'll need to frequently replace.
I don't think this is an accident. These companies want you to hand all your data over to them so they can mine it for data, increase your reliance on them, and/or on paying them reoccurring fees to backup your precious files. They have a real financial inventive to make protecting your data without handing it over them very difficult, just like hard drive manufacturers have an incentive to sell you garbage drives you'll need to frequently replace.