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Also, what makes those combinations of bytes unsupported by OneDrive? I get that OneDrive might have some special support and recognition for certain filetypes, but I assume it also supports unknown file types ... so why on earth would they make it specially recognize certain file types just to blacklist them?

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Because you're holding it wrong.

The blacklisted file types are frequently changing, tanking your sync performance, and the client applications that use them communicate directly with their backend services.

I'm not saying it's a good reason, but it's not completely arbitrary.

I don’t “get” this at all. I want my cloud services to act like dumb mechanical drives, but ones that never break and have zero mass.

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