Is there a way to monitor the progress of an iPhone backup in iTunes on Windows 10?

Here are just some of the major problems with iTunes:

• You only get backup progress on your first backup
• iTunes does not provide a way to tell iTunes to backup to a drive that has enough space remaining to make a backup and will happily start backing up when there is not enough space and use up all of the remaining space on your drive.
• When you realize what has happened as all of your programs start reporting errors, you cancel your first back up and find that you have to create a Windows Junction to get iTunes to back up your phone to a drive that has enough space.
• Now, that you have deleted your first back up and started a new second backup, iTunes assumes you don't need backup feedback status since it will be a quick update of your first backup, so you are left unknowing how long the back up will take, and when you have to leave you don't know whether it is better to just let it finish or cancel.
• So the only way to monitor the progress of a backup on Windows 10 after your first back up:

1. 1. Click on the tiny phone icon
   2. Click on Summary
   3. Look at the storage capacity bar at the bottom: if it says 428.65 GB Free and you have a 512 GB phone then you can estimate the backup size at 512 - 428.65 = 83.35 GB
   4. Navigate to C:\Users\[your user name]\Apple\MobileSync\
   5. Right click on Backup
   6. Select Properties from the context menu
   7. There on the General tab it will tell you the Size of Backup. If it says 415 MB and your backup estimate from step 3 is 83.35 GB, then you have 83 GB left to go
   8. To update the status, click OK on Properties, and then repeat from step 5

After you do all that, you find that they do have a backup progress bar after all, you just have to wait 15 minutes for it to show up. But alas, there is no time estimate.

Having never actually completed an iPhone 12 Pro Max backup over USB-C before, I have no idea if it is a 20 minute ordeal or a 12 hour ordeal. I would like iTunes to detect my computer port type, cable type, hard drive speed, etcetera, and give me the worst case ball park immediately, and as more details and stats are available during the course of the backup, make better and better estimates as time passes. As is, with the progress bar moving so slow, I have to use a stop watch, notepad, and the steps above to make my own estimates. What is wrong with you Apple? We used to pay a premium because your stuff was polished, now I realize that after spending a ton I just did so out of habit.

So why am I trying to backup to my computer instead of iCloud? Because there are still some "great" apps that produce and maintain great personal data files without providing a way to export that data for use outside iOS and in some cases, iOS apps can import that data but the source app does not provide a way to access that data via Files, and rather than jailbreak the phone, I can just make an unencrypted backup, and then use an open source tool to browse the files in that backup. I'm not trying to steal, I'm just trying to access the file that I made using an App that lacks a share or export feature. The funniest part: App author of App A told me that they are phasing out App A and I should go to their App B. App B has import/export and backup. But App A does not have export and they have no migration tools between the app. They just expect me to migrate to App B and recreate my files from scratch in App B, so that I can then backup my files.