note: roses new phone is a 12 pro max 😉. we must always adapt and sometimes side step. and when there is belief something is one way - sometimes it creates opportunity to see how provocateurs challenge that. for example: how eager someone (a father for example) is to colonize the digital sim of their daughter .... 
transference of data is not tied to the sim card but it is more difficult to clean the junk drawer of a non physical sim. also - it requires different action if a phone is killed. you are at the mercy of a commercial enterprise to retrieve your footprint and phone number access. not the case with a physical sim card. i jump my phones all the time when they are full and i do not use icloud and i do not rely on any sort of note of apple banking for memory.