Dan Moren starts his experience with iCloud this way.
Your data is in sync across all your devices, changes update immediately, and you never get a single error message.
It has never been my experience with iCloud - sync takes ages in the always-connected cloud world of today. Especially when I compare it with Dropbox and Google Cloud, the services that I use.
I am a big, big fan of Dropbox. The service has got the perfect balance of functionality and performance. Everything just works.