This feature is extremely helpful because it saves a lot on cloud storage. It allows me to keep only 1 copy of backup data forever in the cloud. It doesn't matter if the file gets deleted locally. It's simple and easy to manage.

As opposed with the new Forward Forever Incrementals, if the retention period expires, then the data is gone and cannot be restored. While this option is good, when you have like 50TB of data, the cloud storage costs really add up quickly. Sure, you can configure different options like monthly and annual backups but I don't really want to be doing that because that's a lot of data. If you can figure out a way to make the new Forever Forward Incrementals work the same way, that would be fine too.

If this option went away, I'd have to seriously reconsider my backup options and possibly another vendor.