At a glance, that looks like $30/mo. Or $160/year, which they’re hoping you never cancel because it becomes a huge task to download and purge before you can cancel your plan.

Or we could do something silly, like have a modern amount of internal storage and a microsd slot, so we can store lots of pictures and videos, and transfer them off the device quickly and easily.

Storage is cheap. Don’t let these pricing models fool you otherwise.

Maybe I’m weird, but I feel entitled to significant storage (options) on my device, but I don’t feel entitled to free cloud storage (of significant size)

It’s those moving pictures that really get you. And our phones now have very high grade cameras on them, so it’s very easy to exceed. Cloud storage fills quickly, or butchers the resolution.