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iPhone 13 Pro Max Reason why you got 512 GB or 1 TB
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Video storage. If you take a lot of video or want to use it at times as your primary camera, you need the storage.
I went with 512 this year. I take tons of videos and I plan on using Pro Res just to have the raw files I can edit to do whatever I want with and for that I wanted more storage to store that video on and not worry about my phone running out of storage space.
Music.
I have a couple hundred GB of DSD, FLAC, WAV files that I listen to with an audio DAC(digital to analog converter) and a set of Shure SE-846.
There are some high-res, lossless files that are over a GB for a single song.
There are other devices I could use besides an iPhone, but then that’s more cost and one more thing to carry.
These larger storage size options are great!
I have a couple hundred GB of DSD, FLAC, WAV files that I listen to with an audio DAC(digital to analog converter) and a set of Shure SE-846.
There are some high-res, lossless files that are over a GB for a single song.
There are other devices I could use besides an iPhone, but then that’s more cost and one more thing to carry.
These larger storage size options are great!
Curious, what are some example of the video that you are talking about?
Even so, 512GB or 1TB still isn't enough. For example my wife has roughly 800GB of video/photos, if it's wasn't for iCloud she would have to go up to 1TB. Even then, it's just a matter of time before she gets to 1TB. So without iCloud photo storage optimization, 256/512 or 1TB is really the same to her. I suppose one could always argue what happen when you are without internet, that might be the case a few years ago but these days that situation is few and far in between.
I got 1TB because it was the only available option for in-store pickup on the 24th.
It was only $100 to double the memory from 256GB to 512GB. And I like to be protected from those "ya never know" situations. I also told myself it would be good for resale value down the road, but that was just some mental gymnastics on my part to help justify upgrading. 
2TB of icloud storage costs $9.99 per month. My 1TB iphone costs $8 per month more than my previous model. iCloud Photo Library introduces delay when opening photos and videos, and the syncing is buggy and unpredictable to me. I store lossless music on my phone rather than streaming. Streaming music, podcasts, and video isn’t free, it pushes me into the “slowed during times of network congestion” area of my plan, and it doesn’t work as reliably as having it stored on my phone. Cellular signals are sometimes poor.
This to me has always been the beauty in a smartphone, once the hardware to do it all is there, why should you need to carry another device?
I still hear a lot of people say “it’s just a phone, why so much storage!?”
Yet, your smartphone is the one device you carry with you almost everywhere everyday, why should it not be able to carry all that you want (within reason) where you go?
Even the iCloud arguments are useless when you are on a road trip or in some rural place with no high speed internet.
I am no audiophile, but I love my music, movie and series and if I am in sitting in some random airport and I don’t want to connect to public WiFi, I am happy that I have all my stuff stored locally on my phone, I throw it into Airplane mode and enjoy what I want.
Love your use case!
I remember using a Nokia N80 back in the Symbian days when I was in high school, rocking a 128mb memory card in it, watching a horror film on its tiny 2.1inch screen while on a road trip and then switching to my Sony PSP with a 1GB memory stick and wishing both device could be combined as the Nokia had what was at the time, a “high density display” (~259 ppi) and I was playing AVI format movies via DivX player, lol.
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They are nearly the only places I travel. Remote Australian deserts and outback. Both ADV motorcycle and 4x4.. The phone is a main camera when on the bike due to the room and weight limitations. Loving the ever improving cameras.
Very cool, would you feel that a smaller size phone with say an external drive also be an option for you?
I got the 1 TB because that’s what I do every year. I have kids also. I run gas turbine combined cycle power plants so I’m a super user at work (that doesn’t explain 1 TB).
Maybe.. but just getting a bigger storage option is better, and they I can also use a drive if I want to.
Where did you get $100 from? I had to pay $200 more from 256GB to 512GB and 1 TB is also $200 more from the 512GB. Maybe you meant from 128GB to 256GB.It was only $100 to double the memory from 256GB to 512GB. And I like to be protected from those "ya never know" situations. I also told myself it would be good for resale value down the road, but that was just some mental gymnastics on my part to help justify upgrading.
As for me I got the 512GB because I wanted blue and that was the only one available. I wanted the 256GB originally.