The fact that this is hard to implement is a sad, sad, reminder of how shitty backwards comparability can be. How, over the past 30 years has someone at MS not

The fact that this is hard to implement is a sad, sad, reminder of how shitty backwards comparability can be. How, over the past 30 years has someone at MS not taken the time to write a real abstraction for the file system? When I first switched to linux 10 years ago I though 'Oh cool, you can mount stuff wherever you want, why would you do that?!' Now it saddens me to realize that the vast majority of computer users have never actually learned to use a file system despite the fact that they are one of the most useful information management tools ever invented, probably second only to the card catalog.