I'd be curious to learn from others what the benefits of this kind of archiving are for them? And if the time cost is worth it.

For me, I feel like I treat most of my documents as very temporal things. I need them for a certain period of time, but then after that, they can be list to the ether. I have never really had a need to reference old content, plans, documents, etc.

The only old things I ever need to reference are old code projects and writings. But even that I can usually manage with just a single folder for the project.

Everytime I get a new computer, I just start fresh. Keeping only a very small amount of files backed up in cloud services. Which as I mentioned are just a very small collection of code projects and writings. Am I crazy? Haha.