[r00fus]

Everyone going "Apple, stop this" won't do anything. Voting with your wallet might. Otherwise, you have freedom of choice to select a different platform/vendor.

I have tons of complaints about Apple, but this isn't one of them (the 256GB works for my family machines).

[mort96]

In what world is "keep buying Apple hardware but also pay for cloud storage" "voting with your wallet"

If you want the most well integrated cloud storage with these machines you'll be paying for cloud storage from Apple anyway, I'm sure Apple will be fine