I don't know what the big deal about 64GB is as its PLENTY for my needs.
That's the great thing about different capacity models being offered: everyone can get something that's at least close to what works for them. It's great that 64GB is plenty for your needs. It's far too anemic for mine (see my screenshot above where I'm using ~390GB of my 512GB). So, you get smaller storage model, and I get the bigger storage model. Everyone wins.
A phone is a phone. Stop trying to make it replace a real camera, camcorder, and digital voice recorder.
I take it then that for your phone you're using a basic flip phone? Ah, no. You already mentioned you use your phone to take some photos and video and run some apps.
Today, a 'phone' is not just a phone. Please do keep in mind, the term 'phone' when applied to modern smart phones is a euphemism at best, and a complete misnomer at worst. It's a broadly capable, highly portable super-computer in your pocket. Tremendous amounts of mind-boggling engineering have gone into their design and some of the best bleeding edge technology we have has been imagined and realized to allow them to do what they can do. The degree to which each of us take advantage of those capabilities differs greatly, obviously, but it's willfully obstructive, almost luddite, to command people stop using their devices for what they're meticulously and amazingly designed for.
I don’t carry them around everywhere just when I need them.
That's a modality that clearly works for you, which is fine. For me, and I imagine many, many others, I never know when I can take advantage of having various bits of equipment with me, and there have been countless times that I've benefited greatly by having a piece of wonder-tech with me that can do so much without having to depend on lugging around an array of specialized pieces of gear 24 hours a day. For me, having the extra storage capacity means I'm never wanting for a device to do what I want, when I want it, no matter where I am, how surprised I am by a circumstance, or how unanticipated those needs might've been.
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