Importing photos from iphone

What is going on with Apple? It's as if you are deliberately making it as difficult as possible for me to access my files.

I have various video and photo files on my iphone. Instead of simply having a DCIM folder like any normal device, Apple insists on a long and convoluted import process whereby I have to swim through several layers of proprietary obfuscation of where my actual files are

After finally copying my files off of my iPhone (15) to my new mac, (Sonoma 14.6.1) when I finally figure out where the photos are imported to, they are stored in a mysterious proprietary .photolibrary file format!!!

This is NOT what professional videographers want! It is ABSURD that Apple have designed this convoluted rube-goldberg machine of an OS to make what should be a simple 2 minute task of simply COPYING MY OWN FILES from my iPhone to my Mac so immensely complicated.

Please advise! I want to simply copy my photographs and video files from my iPhone to a drive on my mac, I do NOT want to faff around with iCloud or whatever cloud services you are selling these days, I just want to do a simple copy of the raw files (which I presume are MP4 or similar) onto a hard drive so they can be sent to post production.

Honestly, MacOS is getting harder and harder to use every day. Sonoma is absolutely *ghastly* in this regard.

Sort it out, apple chaps! You're better than this.