I know, right! How can they expect to die from incurable cancer when we’ve got all the world’s compute devoted to curing it?

The only course of action most Windows users would take at this point is a full reinstallation.

I think most users would either hire someone to reinstall Windows for them or would decide to buy a new laptop. The fun part is that as soon as they log into their MS account after a reload/purchase the sync would happen again and they would be right back where they started.

Yes, all of that happened but it happened because Samsung uploaded the photos without clear authorization and Microsoft downloaded all of the files without authorization after One Drive was automatically reinstalled after the user deliberately removed it.