The most expensive iPhone is $1600, and the Galaxy Fold 5 with the same storage option is $2160, disliking Apple has nothing to do with poverty.
Even if I were a billionaire, I wouldn't want an iPhone. You can't sideload apps, that's an automatic disqualifier in my mind for a smartphone.
Edit: Also, you've edited your comment from "Wanna know how I know you’re poor" to "Wanna know how I know you’re cool" without indicating it, which is a dick move.
Lightning existed before USB-C, and was reversible while everyone else was using Micro-B. Also, storage on the iPhone 5 was so slow that it wouldn't make much of a difference, I doubt it would even saturate USB 2.0 bandwidth. While lightning wasn't very forward thinking of Apple when it comes to bandwidth, keep in mind that at the time, you couldn't even access the file system on iOS, and the files were ridiculously small compared to today.
Two years after Apple introduced the Lightning port, the USB-C spec was published, and there are some Apple engineers who contributed to the specifications of USB-C. Apple quickly adopted it for the Mac, but it was clear that they were hesitant to switch the iPhone in 2015... they could have easily done it, but chose not to.
I don't know why they chose to keep the lightning port for so long (ego making them not want to admit that they designed a port that wasn't very future proof?), but for the first two years, it was more convenient than the only competition at the time which was Micro-B.