have looked in the archives and on reddit, this can't be as hard as it seems. i exported google contacts as csv file and installed graphene. mailing myself those contacts didn't work, unclickable, i guess they need to be vcf. after much fussing around finally got chatgpt to convert to vcf but they populate with names and no numbers. tried both stock and google contacts. please say there's an easy solution that doesn't require python and terminal, which is what chatgpt has been advocating (and i tried).
thank you for suggestions and to the many people who have devoted many hours to making this alternative.