The introduction of SSDs leading to SSD only personal computers accidentally set computing back about a decade. It's crazy that top tier computer manufacturers are actually selling computers with un-upgradable storage of only 256GB (and only 8GB of ram) in 2023. Then these users end up having to juggle a handful of external drives which are far more unreliable and likely to cause weird problems. The vast majority of my tech support is helping people with tiny SSDs deal with the problems of external drives and cloud storage.