Membrane because I’m poor

It also keeps spamming you with notifications to update to Tahoe even on old Macs that don’t support it

Lame that there’s no Mac version. If the original game could do it in 2009 with a smaller dev team why not now?

Security/privacy. With a dumb phone you’re restricted to standard phone calls, SMS messages, and (sometimes) email. All of which are ancient standards that weren’t built with security in mind. Your network provider likely keeps logs on your calls and texts

You can also take a complete backup of the iPhone using macOS’s Finder (the phone should popup there as a “drive” once connected via cable) and then backup everything to a HDD/SSD via TimeMachine

Just to piggyback on your comment, it is possible to directly back up an iOS device to external storage, but it’s not officially supported. You have to create a symbolic link from the default backup location (~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup) to the external drive

iPhone design peaked at the 11 Pro Max