None of which changes the fact that it's more expensive and clunkier, and none of which feels necessary.

A more expensive, clunkier product, with a bunch of needless fluff in it.

So you need to change two settings instead of one to side load. Seems rather pointless.

That's the original

How the heck do people with 4TB SD cards do data hygiene wipes of their medium before crossing international borders?

They don't

Where is that mentioned? I can't find that in the article

This is an extra service they don’t have to offer.

No, they could let you use someone else's service instead, but they've chosen to block that.

you can back it up to your computer as well

According to the article you literally can't

Although based on the comments there, the article may be wrong on that point

*plugs USB into Ethernet port

Plenty of people will

This is very outdated.

• Catalyst doesn't exist anymore, it was replaced by AMDGPU-PRO years ago.
• The Radeon Mesa driver (radeonsi) is generally faster than AMDGPU-PRO OpenGL for gaming, and has been for years. On the Vulkan side, performance is usually fairly close between the Mesa driver (RADV), AMDVLK and AMDGPU-PRO.
• AMDGPU is just the kernel driver, which is used by both the Mesa drivers and AMDGPU-PRO, so why is it listed separately?
• For Intel, I think the hardware was holding it back more than the driver, especially since they've replaced the classic Mesa drivers with Gallium based ones. But now they're doing the Arc stuff.
• I don't know if I would say that Nvidia proprietary runs well

It's not gonna be better than turning the screen off.

That's not at all the same thing. That requires downscaling some screens, which makes everything blurry and breaks subpixel AA.