How do you stop using iCloud?
It seems Apple is funneling us into needing iCloud because there doesn't seem to be a way to extricate myself from it once it has my files in its tentacles. There are all sorts of pathways to UPGRADING and using more, but simply getting my files out of iCloud and back onto my hard drive seems impossible. I have plenty of storage on my mac. Yet, if I try to drag my documents folder from iCloud over to my mac, the spinning ball of death prevents any progress. If I go to settings and deselect Documents and Desktop in iCloud, it states simply that the files will be removed from my computer and STAY IN iCLOUD!! This is ridiculous. Thank you, big tech, for making it so easy to pay for unnecessary services and making it so hard to UNSUBSCRIBE. Apple has become a spam bot of the worst kind. First it was iTunes, now this.... I search the knowledge base, but nobody else seems to be getting an answer either.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15