Not to mention, poorly formatted/organized and to be randomly deleted or removed without warning with all that information lost.

To be fair the ipod classic used a platter drive and ipads are high speed SSD storage. That being said, it's been years of the same storage options and at those prices it should be much higher, along with their iCloud storage offerings.

People don’t generally run out of storage that often. I think perhaps you overestimate how much local data everyday people store.

I can do it without even trying. I can't fit all of just any one of all of my music, shows, documentaries, books, or movies on any {i,iPad,tv,watch,vision}OS device ever made.