The ATP podcast was mentioning someone who had a similar issue.
Apples cloud is drippy.
Apples cloud is drippy.
My backup discipline is excellent because back in the early 2000s we lost a drive which I had not been backing up and it had months of contract work on it; I ended up paying $2500 plus $30 per _CDROM_ burned for the content from that drive... it was just barely worth it.
In other words, iCloud is one “thing” even if it claims itself to have multiple versions/copies/backups.
But the scary thing about this is that it might have gone undetected- silently reverting a file and it not being noticed is death-tier horrifying.