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by tmpz22 2235 days ago
Have you looked through the takeout outputs though? They are completely worthless to most users. It's funny to me that a bunch of Google devs built the functionality and thought "ya this will do".
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What's wrong with the data?

I mainly care about Google Docs and Sheets, they're exported as Word and Excel (and there are other options if you don't like this formats), and the random sample of docs I tried in the output worked fine in Word and Excel.

How are the takeout outputs useless? Mail for example comes as a nice standard mbox
I doubt the devs have much influence over the scope of the data output. The goal there is minimum for legal, compliance, or pr reasons.