Yeah, again: all of this is great for you, but it doesn't change the fact that you are a very, very niche case. You can't just dismiss cloud syncing of passwords because you are the edge case who doesn't need it.
> I keep a password database on the company network with all my work passwords and I have no need to keep a copy of those credentials on a bunch of my personal devices or cloud servers.
That doesn't work for mobile devices. Most people have a work mobile device.
> even if I wanted to use somebody else's servers to do that a properly encrypted file with a very strong password could be safely stored anywhere
This is literally how LastPass and 1Password handle it. If you lose your key, the file in the cloud becomes useless.
> In exchange for a little extra work...
"A little extra work" that is beyond the skills of the vast majority of users.
> ...you gain a ton of utility and resiliency
As someone who used KeePass for more than 10 years until recently, I can honestly say that it was a massive reduction of utility and had no resiliency benefits.
> I keep a password database on the company network with all my work passwords and I have no need to keep a copy of those credentials on a bunch of my personal devices or cloud servers.
That doesn't work for mobile devices. Most people have a work mobile device.
> even if I wanted to use somebody else's servers to do that a properly encrypted file with a very strong password could be safely stored anywhere
This is literally how LastPass and 1Password handle it. If you lose your key, the file in the cloud becomes useless.
> In exchange for a little extra work...
"A little extra work" that is beyond the skills of the vast majority of users.
> ...you gain a ton of utility and resiliency
As someone who used KeePass for more than 10 years until recently, I can honestly say that it was a massive reduction of utility and had no resiliency benefits.