Thank you all for participating, it seems like most of you like to live dangerously ;)
Yes, backups are great, but in my experience mishaps can happen right after you created or changed a file and it might not have been backed up yet. Also trash-restore is much faster than finding a file in the backup solutions I tried so far.
2 voters are using something else but unfortunately did not comment.
No one uses rmw - well I found that only when researching alternatives to trash/trash-cli. It claims to support btrfs however, which trash does not.