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This guy is a LibreOffice developer. He should be smarter than the average Internet Idiot. By far. By all means, he should know not to trust Microsoft.
And comparing this to maintaing a car or house is comparing apples and oranges. In those cases, I have rather clear legal means to get my rights. Online, not so much. And even worse for those living outside the US.
Fair, I was referring more to u/deus03690.
I'd even call him/her an idiot. Assuming the "30 years of irreplacable data" means that he/she is around on the internet for at least half the time, even this person should have learned from many cases like this that online only storage is not viable, especially for important data.