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Artificial segmentation is definitely part of the reasons. However I would have imagined that potential magsafe accessory sales and the (minor) additional longterm lock-in effect into the ecosystem those provide might be large enough to outweigh the need to cut this particular feature.
The archaic file transfer speeds serve the additional purpose of up selling iCloud storage to customers. Particularly those, who dare to use a windows or Linux PC, which make transferring anything a pain.