That democratization is double-edged. On one side, these methods can rescue information lost to accidental overpainting — an old screenshot of a note you meant to keep, a form where a field vanished after compression — and help people recover what matters. On the other side, they can undo deliberate obfuscation intended to protect privacy, reveal passwords or private identifiers, or resurrect statements someone chose to remove. The technology is neutral; the values of the user are not.