Almost everything you said is missing the point in some way. You can think all you want, but your needs change over time, and in any case can't be foreseen by

Almost everything you said is missing the point in some way. You can think all you want, but your needs change over time, and in any case can't be foreseen by reading some articles. There's no substitute to using it for a few months to understand. It's easy to say "look for devices that have expandable memory", but many don't, particularly Macbooks. As an iOS developer, I need macOS. I'm not going to go on and refute your other (frankly mistaken) points, except to say that yes, renting will be more costly, in exchange for the benefits you get. There's no free lunch, and the article doesn't claim there is. The point is that the benefits renting provides are worth the extra cost, for many people.