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It's anecdote, not data, but I don't know a single person who has used their USB cable plugged into their iPhone to transfer data in a very, very long time.

So it intuitively aligns with my personal life and career experience.

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This has been my experience as well. iPads are a different story (useful for wired Sidecar, serving as a graphic tablet for a Mac, loading up large video files to watch, etc), and those have all gotten USB-C along with their chassis updates.

Filthy Android user here.

I don't use NSA scanner tools or upload my sex tapes to Google's AI training model, so I sync my photos to my local NAS once a month.

Not sure why you (or anyone else) needs to wait a full month to sync. Seems like a potential failure, since you could lose as much as a months worth of photos.

OwnCloud or any of the other automatic, fully local syncing apps do this just fine daily. Then you sync photos/videos every time you're on your local network.

I tried owncloud once, and it was janky in my opinion. The once a month sync is an accepted risk. I also sync immediately before and after traveling.

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