No that's not the concern, in fact there isn't a concern as such. I said it's been a Godsend but not for recovery reasons, for example I like to keep past backups of older operating systems, or backups when i had an app installed i no longer have, and may want to go back and use it as the bootable machine. I have old copies of files which I dont want to recover to my current machine, but want to boot to use them in situ rather than bring to my current machine. There are many examples but hopefully that covers it. What I find annoying is that Apple more and more often seem to decide what is best for their users, rather than doing as they used to (what hooked me on Apple and moved me away from Microshaft in the first place) and offering some great options, but letting users choose.
For example, FileVault is GREAT, especially for those who worry about losing their encryption keys (which I would imagine is a large majority of users). But I would like the ABILITY to run my own life and take my own risks, and by the way, increase my own security, by having only one way to unlock my drive, my own lengthy complex key which nobody knows, no user accounts can unlock it, my OS doesnt store it (in hased form or any other form). It belongs to me, as does the responsibility of maintaining it, me alone. I wish I could still do that. It appear Apple now believes we are all such imbeciles that we cant be trusted with that responsibility and thus cant be offered that choice. In fact its worse than that, they have manufactured a prevention mechanism from people actually doing so! I am trying to clone my backup to my internal drive but it wont allow because the internal drive is encrypted as I always format APFS Encrypted. So now I have to hand my key to the OS to do its undeniable 'magic' with, when I dont want any magic! I understand the filevault process, and it looks solid. But I remain utterly unable to accept how it can be anything by less secure than my process, one i have used for years, to unlock my drive first, then log into user accounts.
