I agree, clone your internal drive daily. I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner for years. First as freeware, then as shareware and now as commercial software (fixed one-off price, not a subscription). In addition to cloning it can also work to schedule backups of specific files or folders (i.e. Documents).
What were they thinking of?
Well, as a cynic, they were thinking they could increase their market penetration to non-PC users while not encouraging their existing customers to move to a (superior
) platform that doesn't use their OS. Office for Mac is not much loved in the Mac community, sorta like kissing your sister.
I don't have Office on my Mac, not for years now, so my memory not perfect.