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I bought an incredibly overkill tape system a few years ago and then the power supply exploded in it and I never bothered to replace it. Still, definitely worth it
Yes, tape has very steep entry costs and requires maintenance and storage.
Most of the time it doesn't make sense for a person to use it, but rather a corporate entity that needs to backup petabytes of data multiple times a day.