Getting rid of iCloud sync for music

I don't want to turn this into a rant, but I honestly hate iCloud at this point. It seems like I am no longer able to go through the simple process of 1. purchasing a song/file in the iTunes store, then 2. transferring said file onto my device of choice using a USB connection.
Now when my songs are purchased, iTunes automatically turns them into "iCloud" purchases; even if I physically connect my iPhone to my PC and sync, they still pop up on my phone as iCloud items that need to be downloaded. And of course, to make matters even more annoying, sometimes they don't download.
Am I missing something?? I looked for a way to disable this, and just go back to the apparently outdated method of *gasp* making a simple file transfer through a hard-wired USB cable, but I couldn't find any setting that allowed me to do that.
I''m a group fitness instructor, and when my playlists get screwed up because of this, it is extremely irritating. Can anyone help?

I don't claim bigger insight into how apples servers work but if I were to make iCloud music then rather then having a copy of each music number to give people who buy it and then store the very same data for every single one of users who bought it then I would keep the data 1 place and handle iCloud music streaming by controlling who could access the 1 place the music file was stored if that was the case then if you deleted it it would be gone for everybody forever

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