Algorithms are used in nearly every aspect of computing. If you could learn the basic flow of how an algorithm works, that would be very beneficial.

A more recent issue, this one with youtube banning google accounts for posting too many emoji's during a live stream,what if all of your business data was on your google account? You would be done unless you could get unbanned. There is something to be said for using local apps. The engineers I work with are often out of range of any network, so having apps that run on their laptops is crucial.