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What a nightmare.
Why don't we just let things default to not auto save but you can turn it on at anytime.
I personally hate it. Absolutely hate it.
I want to put things where I want them the first time when I am ready. I don't use cloud services, I have my own network and cloud file shares. I don't want some program choosing when and where to save something for me, because it is extra work finding all these garbage files I didn't ask for.
For this one aspect, compared to a program that implements autorecovery, there is barely any practical difference. Autorecovery has to imply some kind of autosave, just behind your back in some program-specific "hidden" default folder.
Maybe you really like the "old-school" document GUI with no recovery, where you train your muscle memory to, e.g., ctrl+s every minute; and when something crashes, that's the point you go back to. But this is a punishing workflow for beginners.
And this is not "in theory". I've countless times seen real, smart, computer-literal, people lose significant amounts of work precisely this way to software implementating this paradigm.
I realize the tone of this conversation may make it sound as if I want to force this on you all the way down to, what can it be - vim? I'm mostly picturing LibreOffice, Inkskape, etc., software that to some degree try to appeal as "desktop software" to fairly normal users. I think in these cases the "you are editing the doc itself"-paradigm would be vastly more friendly to new users.