Which means they are taking away yet another useful item, right.
More like they are taking away a device that has outlived its usefulness. Given the market's demand for ever thinner, lighter laptops with ever bigger batteries (a.k.a. longer battery life) and something had to go. The SD card was initially developed for use in digital cameras where they continue to dominate because of its form factor, but are rapidly being replaced by significantly smaller, micro SD cards with the same storage capacity. SD slots were included on laptops and other computers as a means of transferring images from cameras to computers, but Bluetooth has largely supplanted that use and SD cards, arguably the slowest and least reliable available option, are the logical thing to leave out. My 2022 Apple Studio still has an SD slot, although it is never used. Instead, I find it more convenient to use a
USB stick that reads both SD and micro SD cards and has both Type A and Type C connectors, and works on all my devices.
That said, your decision to use the SD card slot should work well.
