[mikeyla85]

I'm far from the only person who - has needs that can be met by cloud providers at costs I can afford - can't afford to pay a sysadmin - has enough technical skills to hack my way through it

But this is also like saying "You should have hired an expert to tell you that when the sailboat builder kit manual says drill into the back it actually means the front." Regardless of whether someone more experienced at this would know better, this UX is awful, its title is inaccurate, and the whole process around changing storage classes far more confusing than the UX makes it seem.

There are petabytes and petabytes of data from independent filmmakers that are rotting away on drives, and part of the issue is lack of other affordable options. So I get that "shoulda hired a sysadmin" is an easy response but that's not always an option, especially when there's dozens of hard drives or other complexities that make these tasks last weeks or months.