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Its the backing up books / movies / shows / games I do not fully get tbh., to me it feels a bit like digital hoarding.
Like if its a rare item that you struggled to get - I can see it, kind of.
The amount of things I have wanted to ever rewatch / reread is absurdly small. I can think of a singular book, maybe a few movies and a couple shows (and those really for a lack of alternatives that I have not seen).
I mean, yea you're not wrong but it's not like I have piles off shit all through my house I have to build trails to get through. It's a server and external drives sitting in a corner and it lets me have whatever I want to read/watch at my fingertips instead of having to find it on streaming somewhere. There's probably stuff in there I'll never look at again but there's a lot that sometimes I just get in the mood for and it's right there ready to go or if I can't decide I can pick something at random.
I can certainly see why some would not want to mess with it and I do have a pretty huge backlog of tech debt where I have to sort things out of my "downloads" folder into my media library but all in all I think it's worth it. It's the one thing I allow myself to just go crazy on because it's so cost efficient. Buying actual objects that will take up space in my house is another story, those things get vetted thoroughly before I pull the trigger on the purchase.