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Seriously this opens up so much creativity for the DM.
"This person seems familiar to you, but you're not sure why."
"You think you've been here before, but you're not sure when."
"Being on a ship feels like home, but you have no memories of ever being on a ship."
"Upon seeing the ruins of the village you find yourself overcome with sorrow, you feel like you've lost something important but you don't know what."
Part of the adventure can be a quest to reunite them with their lost memories.
I actually agree, that could be pretty fun. That said this puts a lot of work / pressure on the DM so it is definitely something to be discussed rather than used to be lazy. (To be clear, I am not reading this into what you said. Just saying it out loud is all)
I'm a forever DM so I've got so many unused character ideas that turn into either NPCs or if a player is like "I forgot to make a backstory"
But with the amount of improv I do as a DM it's very little effort for me.
Though I agree it should be discussed as part of session 0. As it'd be rude not to.
Session 0 for my groups is always the same really, we sit around boucing ideas off of each other for characters, things we don't want to be touched on during the campaign, and what kind of campaign we want.