It can get worse - imagine a program that normalizes all paths before handing them off to the fs. Then you go to delete the denormalized file, but it deletes th

It can get worse - imagine a program that normalizes all paths before handing them off to the fs. Then you go to delete the denormalized file, but it deletes the normalized one. With this change, the only safe way to handle paths would be to NOT normalize at all, but Apple are recommending the exact opposite. I predict a lot of confusion will arise from this change.