How is moving from Obsidian to Notion relevant? They're basically the same thing?

I keep losing my files with cloud-first systems. I had a trove of notes in Evernote and I don't even remember which email I used to open it, nor if they are there anymore. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't lose local-first markdown files, as I could do the same thing I do with code: keep them in git, and then have a cloud backup for good measure.

Ah, i didn't realize you said TO obsidian. For some reason I read it as the other way around, which is why it really confused me.

The difference is with a local-first editor (like Obsidian) you hopefully get to keep your files if the company stops being nice