I have accounts with 4 other similar services and while I wasn't going to leave onedrive (I get a lot of the bonus data from various promotions and deals) it certainly got me seriously thinking about paying for another service that wasn't going to screw me over by killing their data limits. Go into any forum or story here and elsewhere that covered the gimping of the 15Gb OneDrive data thing and you see a LOT of people claiming to be leaving or to already have left onedrive in favor of other services. But this makes less attractive to recommend for other users who just needs decent and generous enough cloud storage for everyday needs, who dont need large storage and pay for unnecessary expense for them. OneDrive is not much known outside Windows users (especially Windows phone/mobile users), this move doesn't help making it more mainstream. While Microsoft went to Apple-esque route. Since the OneDrive changes, Google Drive officially takes he place of OneDrive. With those, 5GB seems nothing especially if a user dont manage their content.
For more casual, everyday cloud storage use for thousands photos (average of 8-13MP), videos (especially phones equipped with 4K recording), some documents which isn't much and probably even music thanks to Groove Music locker and other music locker services out there. Yeah, its still better than iCloud but only better for Office 365 users.
Making it just 5GB makes it not much better than ridiculed iCloud.
Its really a bad time to reduce their base storage especially hat Windows 10 gives opportunity for more potential OneDrive users, where the service is directly baked on the OS. Yeah, they make OneDrive less competitive to against Google Drive, another big cloud storage that is really popular and growing.
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