It feels weird that your setup is seen as unusual. Maintaining a home NAS, self-hosting everything, offline and remote backups: This is how I've done things for years (decades?) Besides a brief stint with Gmail, which I weaned myself off of a few years ago, I'm not tied to any particular online service at all. I'm not dependent on the whims of some company, whose interests do not align with my own, to maintain my access to photos, financial records, music, E-mail, etc. If I lost all my online accounts tomorrow (besides my ISP and a single VPS I still use), life would go on as usual.

What's strange and foreign to me is the world where people rely on other companies for so much of their online lives.