Don't Android and iOS apps use a persistent database to store much of their data? So in that case the recovery procedure is to do something like "Clear storage"/"Clear cache".

And most of your work laptops probably have a network-mounted user home directory. Swap a laptop and you still get your home dir. You can always selectively purge part or all of your home dir.

Persistence doesn't make these issues unrecoverable, it just makes the process for recovery different. Although admittedly it's less simple than it was in previous generations.