This isn't for long term storage, it's for ephemeral transfers between two well defined entities. Like if I, as developer A, need to give a large binary blob to

This isn't for long term storage, it's for ephemeral transfers between two well defined entities. Like if I, as developer A, need to give a large binary blob to another developer B. If we are not in close enough proximity for physical media transfer, something like this might be the next quickest option. There's no need to go through the work of distributed it through the ipfs network. TLDR; different usecases.