"Why this is more than an inconvenience. For paying users who treat their sessions as intellectual property — design reasoning, prompt history, hard-won context — this is silent, unconsented destruction of user-owned data. The transcripts are the user's record of their own thinking and work; deleting them by default, silently, with no recovery, inverts the expected ownership relationship. A 30-day default that quietly discards months of accumulated reasoning is a poor default for that audience, however reasonable it is for disk hygiene in the general case."

Those users would be wise to back those files up if they consider them valuable intellectual property. If they're important enough that you'd miss them after a disk failure, then they should have been being backed up already.

>if they consider them valuable intellectual property [...]

It's hard to take any of what's written seriously, given that it's all AI generated. Did the user actually lose "valuable intellectual property", or did they tell claude to write as dire of a justification as possible?