What is ICNS?
ICNS is the macOS icon container - what sits inside an .app bundle. Since Lion it stores its images as ordinary PNGs at a handful of sizes, which is why reading one means picking the biggest member and writing one means rendering several.
What is TIFF?
TIFF is the archival and print format - lossless, high bit depth, and flexible enough to hold multiple pages in one file. Scanners, publishing workflows and document archives lean on it heavily. Browsers have never displayed it, which is why it is offered here as a target rather than a source.