As far as I'm concerned, having a stack of redundant external drives is a feature, not a bug.
I can easily plug them to a collaborator's computer when network is slow (which is almost always).
If one fails, no big deal, I can just swap it out with another one bought at a local store.
We're really spoiled, SSDs are tiny and super fast and relatively cheap these days. I remember lugging around 3.5" drives...
I always get a laptop with the minimal amount of storage, the money you'd spend upgrading is better spent on drives. That way if it fails, I can buy a new machine, plug in my existing drives, and I'm ready to resume my workflow in 30 minutes.
No single point of failure.
Same with SD cards, much better to have a bunch of 64 GB than one single expensive 512GB.
(of course, I have a nice beefy storage array at my home studio)
Now if software would catch up...