Everything about vacuum cleaner bags
Trying to clean out the dust from a vacuum can get messy. If you knock the canister against the side of a trash can, an ugly cloud of dust can erupt from the canister.
Even if you do this outside, it can get pretty messy. A vacuum cleaner bag, on the other hand, is self-contained (which is why vacuum bags don’t seem to be going away anytime soon). There are other dust containment methods such as filters containing water, but these can require much more money than many people are willing to spend.