My only experience with btrfs was when trying out Opensuse Tumbleweed. Within a couple days my home partition was busted, next time it was another partition. No idea if the problems could be fixed as these were fairly new installations to give Opensuse a try and I couldn’t be bothered to fix a system that’s troubling me from the very beginning.

Between all the options that just work ™, btrfs is the one I’ve learned to stay away from.

EDIT: that was four or five years ago

Isn’t that the explicit downside to their free plan? I mean it would still be baffling if they don’t have any in-house testing.

Usually I buy them at a slower speed as I’m not in shape

Most often I use it, it’s too avoid metrics.

Why am I even surprised to find out about this?

As an European I’m also surprised that the US’ vertical Expansion is only around twice that of France.