The 2025 Veeam report (your halcyon link cited the 2024 version) reinforces your point about the risk of being re-attacked: "among those that paid a ransom, 69% were attacked more than once"!

And it looks like that 92% you mentioned (from the 2021 report) is now perhaps more like 17%:
"Did your organization pay a ransom to recover its data?
17% Yes, but we still could not recover our data
47% Yes, and we were able to recover our data
2% No, and we could not recover our data
25% No, but we were able to recover our data anyway
9% No ransom was asked for"

https://www.veeam.com/resource... (behind "Register to Read" wall)

I think AC was pointing out that you came off sounding jealous. Which, really, you kinda did. I can only assume that the rest of AC's comment was a joke.