I agree. That is one of my favorite things about Android... NO activesync.
Android is cloud based and should remain that way. I hardly ever plug my phone into my computer. If I want to transfer a file a put it in dropbox. If I want to get a picture off of the phone I upload it to Picasa (or dropbox for that mater).
With how useful I find dropbox on my device I think it would be good for Google to offer some of our massive Gmail storage space as general file store. Let us upload to Google docs or Picasa or something. They have all the parts in place, just make it happen.