Thag perception is because the “shitty” chocolate is mass marketed and widely available. You’re not gonna find gourmet artisan chocolate at a 7-11.

Yeah humans are great at learning from their mistakes and would never ever repeat the same mistakes over and over and over.

Cloud providers are going to have multiple redundant backups spread across multiple datacenters. A NAS box with the same level of backups will involve much more work. Theres alao dealing with secure external network access. Theres tons of reasons a selfhost is not the best solution.