Probably doesn’t have auto defrag because God forbid the OS do anything useful for you without a hundred terminal commands and a two hour setup lest all the sweaty arch users barge in with claims of bloat and “reeeeee why can’t I just decide for myself”.

And also it may save you down the road.

Sure, your dataset might not be big now but what about in a year's time? It's easier to start out using a database than to have to transition it later.

"arch is spyware"

Would you like to open a GitHub issue as to how?

See I used to think this was a feature where it auto translated titles for you because some of the titles are a bit nonsense. Guess not.

Well they want to prove who you are because a Google account is the central part of someone's online life. I'd imagine that binning off all that info quickly looked really suspicious and flagged something on their systems. They can't just let that slide because of the possible implications, someone might use that email as their bank account login or maybe it's linked to something really personal.

Is it out of the goodness of their hearts? Hell no, it's entirely to cover their asses from liability for damages.