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Cloud backup has its place, just as offline physical backup does. They solve for two different problems and you need both.
Cloud backup - mindless. Set it and it regularly backs up things you do, even when you're remote. Offline backup - fairly dependable, but not updated as often. Requires over action on the part of the user. Can't use remotely if you also want to secure the created offline backup.
So best use case would be cloud backup all the time, and a physical offline backup you control at regular intervals, that you'll actually do.
Cloud backups are fine as an absolute last resort for if your house burns down and you lose all local copies of your data. But you should never trust a cloud service to keep the only copy of your data. And you should absolutely never store your data unencrypted on a cloud service. All it takes is one undesirable file (say, a movie you torrented) making its way into your backups for your account to be terminated.
You should never trust any backup solution to be the only copy of your data.
I assume you backup locally at home. Do you ever travel away from home and create files? Do you just roll the dice and assume your device with you will never have a technical failure or be stolen?
Of course, the point of a backup is that it's not your only copy. And I don't worry about making backups while I'm traveling, as nothing I have is so critical that losing a few weeks of files would be devastating.
My comment on that was in reference to backups alone, not the originals. Perhaps the 3-2-1 backup philosophy isn't quite as known outside if the IT world.
For many of us that isn't the case. We may have days, weeks, or months before returning home. How about your vacation pictures you take on your phone while you are on that trip? You're okay if those go away before you get home?