Oh I totally agree. I treat my phone as purely a consumption and communication device. It's a dumb brick that should do those things well, including being secure. The more walled garden the better, in my opinion, as long as it's doing those things well and maintaining my privacy.
On the other hand, it's useless for creation. But that's fine, the trade offs are worth it in my opinion. I have dedicated hardware running Linux/Windows for that purpose.
Yeah exactly. I sometimes use it to view documents in a pinch but vast majority of everything I do is on a desktop/laptop. When I backup all I have to do is copy one folder over to my desktop and that folder also gets backed up to icloud. Iphone also obviously will reinstall the apps that I use if I need to switch devices. It works pretty well. my phone isn't the center of my world and in general I don't care about keeping old conversations on chat apps and such. Some people want to keep all their data into perpetuity but I don't.
On the other hand, it's useless for creation. But that's fine, the trade offs are worth it in my opinion. I have dedicated hardware running Linux/Windows for that purpose.