That is a great point. I bet they are going to walk this back on games that have been released already. Hopefully, devs will just move to an opensource game engine or make their own.
Honestly I am fine with it. It looks like they did not have the usb3 controller built into the cpu until they made the 17 and m1 chips. To be honest, I am not going be moving any large files between the phone and a flash drive, at most a short video. The slower speeds will not bother me.
The thing with hdds is that when they fail, if you check regularly, you can recover a lot of your data if not all the data from it.
When an ssd fails, it’s all gone instantly.
I still rely on hdd for long term storage.
Additionally hdds are better for backups that are not regularly connected. The ssd can lose charge over time and data can be lost.
With that being said, I also have important work data and it is duplicated on multiple types of drives in multiple places.