lacking basic functionality that has been available in every professional (and amateur) OS since the 1960's.
Please reference a photo app from the 60's that allowed moving photos from one folder to another.
Most modern and professional photo management apps these days do the same as Apple does.
They allow "virtual" copies where the actual photo stays in one location on your computer, but allows you to create very small virtual copies for purposes of organizing photos in to albums, collections etc. Keywords (or color tagging, labels etc.) are more effective to organize photos than folders. One photo can be placed in dozens of virtual albums without taking up much space.
When you edit a photo in an Apple photo app, the original file is not edited, but a small text (sidecar) file is made holding the edits and applied to the original photo when you view it. Again, very efficient as you don't have to manage multiple full sized copies of photos.
It's your mindset that is stuck in the 60s, not Apple's.
All full sized iOS photos "live" in one large album called All Photos. When you assign a photo to an album, a very small virtual copy is made and placed in the album. The original stays behind.
If you need the ability to actually move the file itself, you need another app.
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