Time Machine has a reputation for silent failures and corruption issues that have frustrated users for years. Network backups (to NAS devices) use sparse bundle disk images that are notoriously fragile. A dropped connection mid-backup can corrupt the entire backup history, not just the current snapshot. https://www.google.com/search?q=time+machine+corruption+spar...
Time Machine sometimes decides a backup is corrupted and demands you start fresh, losing all history. Backups can stop working without obvious notification, leaving users thinking they're protected when they're not. https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/11cod08/apple_tim...
The shift from HFS+ to APFS introduced new bugs, and local snapshots sometimes behave unpredictably. https://www.google.com/search?q=time+machine+restore+problem...
The backup metadata database can grow unwieldy and slow, eventually causing failures.
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Time Machine is just garbage for ignorant people.
It is a very solid setup, with 3 independent backups: local, nearby and far away.
Now - it took an awful lot of time to set up (including drinking the wrapper to account for everything). This is advanced IT level.
So Time Machine is not for ignorant people, but something everyone can use. (I never used it, no idea if it's good but it has to all last work)
Guess there's a lot of money to be made wrapping it with a paid GUI
