Some of the lower tier individual plans offer generous storage. There's value for having a copy with them vs doing everything yourself.
There's a bit of maintenance even if you just stand still. On the photo side, I notice them updating distortion correction for new lenses that come out, new camera body support, etc -- that's just a few examples of maintaining existing features, separate from the new features they rolled out. Whoever does that has bills to pay, and I think that's just a fact across the industry.
Someone has to get paid to build, maintain, and extend these things, and I don't know if that classifies as rent-seeking.
There's a bit of maintenance even if you just stand still. On the photo side, I notice them updating distortion correction for new lenses that come out, new camera body support, etc -- that's just a few examples of maintaining existing features, separate from the new features they rolled out. Whoever does that has bills to pay, and I think that's just a fact across the industry.
Someone has to get paid to build, maintain, and extend these things, and I don't know if that classifies as rent-seeking.