[maxlin]

Been dealing with this a while, it's hard to be consistent as google doesn't give any way to do this automatically so at best you can schedule it to provide you downloads for 1 year every 2 month and then remember to download them in time, also it's not just one download but might be over 5 if there's more data. And also remember to set it up again in one year, dark patterns galore.

One good thing I noted in Takeout though, is it converts your google docs stuff to locally-viewable formats easier than other options (and of course a lot better than you'd get by just syncing in Drive as they are just links to the gdocs in that case!).

Another issue where google makes transferring stuff harder is just transferring stuff to another Google Drive. I had to do this from company account to my own (with a valid reason, I was a cofounder and we were shutting down). There was no built-in way so I programmed my own recursive copier that retains google docs as google docs and files as files, an also manually manages to retain comments and where they apply to in the docs. It still wasn't possible to retain edit history which sucks, considering if these were just normal files doing be most basic folder copy would do all of this.