> It simply presents a list of media on your device, which you can save in any location you want. There's no organizational aspect, unlike iPhoto. Image Capture doesn't help with the uploading/sharing part, of course, but it's much more streamlined way of directly downloading photos versus iPhoto.

iPhoto's "organizational" aspect, as far as mandatory core goes, does not go any further than an optional "event name" field (it'll just use the import date if no event name is specified). And it does provide sharing options.

Image Capture is useful if you want to download stuff to the filesystem or delete pictures without importing them (iPhoto can't do that), but it definitely isn't simpler than iPhoto to import media: on iPhoto you select your pictures, click "import selected" (or just import all if you don't want to bother) and when done select "keep imported" or "remove imported", on Image Capture you select your filesystem destination, select your pictures, click "import" (or just import all if you don't want to bother) and when done you manually remove the file from the device.

> it's much more streamlined way of directly downloading photos versus iPhoto.

Only if your end goal is to have the pictures in an accessible place on your filesystem in their raw form.