Why not n-tuples instead of functions for cartesian product of infinite indexed family of sets?

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Following is the definition of Infinite Cartesian Products.

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For cartesian product, why do not we just use cartesian product and get "n-tuples" instead of "arbitrary(possibly infinite) indexed family" of function sets?

I am not sure but the reason might be that there is not any usual way to select from tuples unless a function used so functions used in first place. (Actually there is projection map definition in wiki article but not sure about it.) (This answer is also about n-tuple item access; Mathematical symbol to reference the i-th item in a tuple?)

So, is not there any way other than functions to access n-tuple items? So, what is the point actually?