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I send files through email or usb and have dohe so for years and i'm fine.
I can't email 20 pictures that are 5MBs each. Gmail caps at 20MB and other providers have random other caps. No one in my life with an iPhone knows what to do with a USB stick. Nor do I want to use a computer as an intermediary to get something I wanted on my phone.
I'm not saying there weren't always ways to transfer files. There always have been and I've used many of those ways. But god Airdrop is simpler and more reliable than most of them for small every-day things from phone to phone especially for tech illiterate.
I use magic-wormhole often but I'm not asking my tech illiterate grandma to use that just to get some photos from me. I'm also not going to get an iPhone myself to iCloud the photos to her or whatever Apple people do.
If email works fine for you, great. But that doesn't make it a good solution for everyone. I hate emailing files around.