I’m def not defending the big phone companies. There could be creative ways to mitigate pure storage vs fast storage, similarly to computer DRAM vs NVME 4.0.

I think another point I want to add is that you’re an outlier. Out of all my friends with iPhones and Android phones, they are not ripping roms and downloading their music from CDs.

Normies are kinda dumb and don’t fully utilize their phones.

These phones are geared towards those normies. Modern phone makers don’t consider you as part of their demographic.