In a system where everyone breaks the law (because there are so many) and everyone is spied on (so you can prove anyone did some sort of “ crime”) you can now coerce anyone you like if you get to make the decision of who to charge (like governments do) which is useful for silencing descent or opposition.
The tradeoff is security and privacy. Important things. If you click the eye icon next to a password, or paste a secret to an env var you are now exploitable. If you have something you want to keep private or shred this is another place to delete (or forget to do so). So there are plenty of anti-benefits to this superpower.
I don’t regret buying a house but I assumed I would. The great house price crash was waiting for me to buy, so I thought… still it is a shallow win to see others suffering with rent prices.
You never know when you will need a 10 year old doc. Audits and disputes for example. In addition I suspect keeping all the docs uses 1% of the spaces of photos people back up anyway.
I agree that search is overkill - just drudge manually or use grep when the time comes to dig.