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S3 may be last storage service on the internet to go away, but if you stop paying for a while (forget, credit card expires, medical issues), then your data will dissappear.

Why do people pay for things like Google Drive or Dropbox when S3 storage is so cheap?

Why use Dropbox when you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, back in 2007 even?

I understand some of these words.

It's a reference to the comments of the "Show HN" of Dropbox back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Because I can't store my gmail and Google Docs documents on S3, and because Google Photos is easier to use than cramming my stuff to S3.

Yup. It's not just that I use Docs, but I don't know what I'd do without Google Drive Search across all my documents. Same with searching photos using text search.

Also Google Drive for Desktop. I'm sure there's an equivalent for S3 but I don't know if it works as well.

Every backup restore test will also be quite expensive with glacier