Back “in the day” storage space in the form of hard drives and portable formats cost serious money, so compression programs were a godsend. But I learned they would occasionally corrupt files somewhere in the compress/expand process in a way where those files were beyond recovery. In a job where one is handling other people’s money such errors are intolerable, so I avoided use of .zip wherever possible and just invested in ever-larger storage mediums.
Thirty years later those mediums have vastly improved and become much more affordable. Terabyte-plus solid state drives and multi-gigabyte thumb drives are now the norm while transmission technology has progressed everywhere short of Antarctica. But it’s good to know improvements have been made in old yet still-handy programs many people still rely on.