With Apple it’s all or nothing. When you’re in the ecosystem everything works and works well. When it’s one device that needs to be its own ecosystem. That’s just the way they’re designed. Some aren’t happy about it. Some are. There was clearly a market gap for users wanting this kind of simplicity.
A home solution for file transfers between Apple and non Apple for me is a local nas.
At least when Jobs was being a tyrant there was proper innovation. Really try and remember the shit they put out at his prime. Shit was timeless. And all still had acceptable pricing relatively speaking.