It's just conflating needs. Document editing and file storage are two different tasks. It's weird that people want everything integrated. It's not much effort to just drag and drop a file into G-Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, box.com...
Not really, that's managers' speak. All things SharePoint is just a data swamp.
Not if you want to enable multiple users to be live editing the document at the same time.
Google Docs, on the other hand, works great when you're working together on a document. Too bad they don't have a native client.
Many millions of others seem to do it all the time without issue. I've done it practically every day for many years now and haven't run into sync issues for a long time.
It's not made to sync if two people are trying to open the file off a NAS, it's made for people editing files stored in OneDrive/SharePoint.
But as both examples show, you need to have your document editing and document storage closely working together for multi-user live editing to work. That's something that so far practically only integrated editors/storage platforms offer.
See, there’s the problem. Once you touch anything M365, you’re using SharePoint.
People see SharePoint as a document collaboration tool. But, in reality, it’s real use is as a data storage platform.
But SPO uses Azure Blob Storage to store content rather than SQL databases.