Also, while google and microsoft have given unlimited storage for decades, NMCI has absurd caps. I think it was something like 250 MB when I was in a fleet squadron (2013-2016). I have 3 gb now for email apparently, up from 2 I think last year. Sure, over the past ten years I should have taken better care to delete the junk with attachments that flow in on a daily basis. If this upgrade is across everyone, then my complaint is slowly being addressed.
Also, total squadron share-drive was limited to something like 36GB (again for a deployable squadron... so I get the boat thing... but one 3x3x6 foot box could store insane amounts of TBs on the boat). Unreal. And when you can buy 4TB of storage for 99.99, or rent at about 2 cents per GB, it is absurd. While these prices are better than they were back in 2014, they aren't so much so that the entire squadron share drive being under 36GB being a hard limit made any sense whatsoever except for laziness. Hell, just the number of flight boots I've gotten probably would have upped our entire squadron's share drive to the TB level easily. So it's not expensive comparatively...
But my guess is it all comes down to the boat folks. Related example; our squadron was not able to get an exemption from the boat IT folks to use a USB device to update our Garmin GPSs when needed on NMCI. Back in 2014 I tracked down an email thread from like 2010 or so on the same issue, and was unable to get any traction. So what we ended up having to do is fly with outdated databases until the next port call, when I (when it was my job) would grab the cards from Mx, and update them on my laptop from the hotel. Totally the norm(/SARCASM) for aircraft nav updates (never logged a single thing in nalcomis). It all worked out fine; it would probably take an E-2 with expired GPS NAV being the reason for a mishap to make a change there. Odds are super slim that that would ever cause one, obviously. But it's the same odds with flying with expired paper pubs, or expired foreflight, and I don't know many pilots that would come clean out of that post mishap.