FWIW I agree with you, personally I also prefer Winrar, and have used it for many years with zero issues. I like its ui better than 7zip's. But the 260 chars is

FWIW I agree with you, personally I also prefer Winrar, and have used it for many years with zero issues. I like its ui better than 7zip's. But the 260 chars is the one edge case that happened to be important to me and so I decided to switch.