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True! My disk-image-centered workflow comes from before APFS volumes were a thing; I haven't bothered to re-evaluate it. (It is nice that I can just schlep one of these volumes around by copying one file, rather than waiting for thousands/millions of small files to compress, copying the archive, and then decompressing on the other end, though. Do you know if there's an easy method of doing a block-level export from an APFS volume to a sparsebundle disk image, or vice-versa? That'd be killer for this.)