Software development is hard and that is why we need a remote storage solution? What am I missing?
I think the point was software development is hard, so you need to give yourself the right tools for the job. Lots of developers don't use any version control. Yes, in 2014. One reason they don't is the perceived time/overhead of managing a system. So outsourcing makes sense as a way to get a function that is critical to building software, which they otherwise would not have.