>>38198479You got lucky. It varies by person to person how long your data sticks around for after your subscription lapses. The service itself specifically advertises that once the subscription lapses that your pokemon "may or may not be preserved", and google searching you can find plenty of stories of people whose banks were wiped.
Also for reference, storing data in a cloud archive can be done for $0.004 per GB per month, which is less than 1/5 of the cost of storing data normally. The only real downside to this is that it takes a few hours for your data to be restored to an accessible state if you don't pay a little extra for expedited retrieval.
