Exactly. I don't hate the general concepts or anything, they're obviously important for organizational structure, but the static and uninteresting representati

Exactly. I don't hate the general concepts or anything, they're obviously important for organizational structure, but the static and uninteresting representations do not take advantage of some of the rich bandwidth of the visual channel. We could see a lot of things about a directory, or at least have them hinted -- a sense of age of files, perhaps ... a collage of some oft-accessed files ... a TF-IDF for a document jutting forward only to be subsumed by a video segment washing over it, and so on. File sizes could be represented on some kind of log-scale. And you're so painfully spot-on about hiding with GUIs. Microsoft continues to wave the utterly unnecessary 3D Objects in my face, and My Videos, and so on and so forth. One Drive appears to jostle for my attention, but meanwhile I have to do additional work just to see where in a directory tree I am.