Yeah, I also think the internet features on them are stupid. For simplex or even local repeater use, digital is freaking awesome. It significantly increases the range you can have an intelligible conversation at.Ew, digital is gross. It's a bunch of competing specifications that are mostly proprietary (arguably illegal because of that) and don't interoperate well or at all. Also, people keep using a radio link to some local mmdvm-like gateway for the first ten feet, and route the rest of the internet. Which is exactly what you don't want to use for something you're going to rely on in an emergency.
I do find the multiple standards annoying, but just get whatever your friends are using. The radio will still do analog for everyone else. I picked up the Yaesu because Rockdale got a Fusion repeater... If people in your area use a different standard get that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯