"e-waste consumption slabs" really does a disservice to all of the art that has been created with these devices (visual, auditory, textual), all of the communities that have been built by information sharing and network effects, education that has come from looking up anything at any time, and the exploration that apps like Maps, Weather, Translate, etc encourage and enable.
"I can't compile from a command line, so this is e-waste and only used for consumption." - give me a break.
Why is visually navigating a directory tree superior to telling the computer "show me photos of my family" and having it do a better job than I manually good?
A counter-datapoint of one, from me: I don't miss the file system browser at all. I have been a little bewildered by the iOS "Files" app, and the addition to the sharing widget of "Save to Files" - I never use it. I'm not saying it doesn't have a purpose and that no one would ever use it, but I don't miss it and don't have a need or want for it.
For what it's worth, my brand new washing machine still can't make my morning coffee, either.