Because these features where all there and worked perfectly before Google decided to kill them. Are you really arguing every manufacturer in the world added scoped storage on their own.
I’ll also add scoped storage is about 20 times slower and broke many legacy apps as well.
Have to be honest first Android lost my support when they did their best to kill Micro SD cards then they decided to make connecting mtp only which absolutely ruined using a cable to transfer anything then came the head phone jack being removed.
The final nail on the coffin was scoped storage which made things so much slower it seemed absolutely ridiculous and also stopped you from being able to use files with the app you might have wanted.
At this point I’m kind of hoping something like Tizen or even Harmony Os takes over.
Yeah sad thing is I can understand Starlink being the only option for some people, so yeah I wouldn’t blame you for using it.
Honestly people would have to be basically mad to buy tesla now, same with twitter etc.
I sympathise with people who starlink is the only option but yeah I’d rather go without.
Google absolutely did gimp Micro SD cards even the phones that have them still you can’t hot swap them because it gets merged with the primary storage instead.
Pretty obvious Google did this to sell their cloud storage when before you could switch cards at will easily.