> Chat history I don’t know anyone that cares about it so maybe your expectations are just different there
The general expectation of, at a first approximation, absolutely anybody who has ever used WhatsApp, is that things do not disappear and get lost.
I don't mean us geeks, spies, enemies of the state, people chased by Mossad. I mean our grandmas and grandpas, our aunts and parents. I've seen enough tears over lost data and I don't see why this needs to happen.
For people (in other comments) who want to lose data: why not have a setting "do not backup my data, I do want to lose it if my phone dies"?
Chat history I don’t know anyone that cares about it so maybe your expectations are just different there.