tl;dr: because files are an "old" concept. Hmm. The QWERTY issue is completely incidental and a total red-herring. And just because something is old doesn't me

tl;dr: because files are an "old" concept. Hmm. The QWERTY issue is completely incidental and a total red-herring. And just because something is old doesn't mean it should or needs to be replaced. Needless to say, no alternative is suggested. At the end of the day, no matter how we think of or use "packages" of data, they are just that - coherent bits which make up a meaningful whole: whether that's an image, 140 characters of text, a pdf document or whatever. I'm struggling to see how the concept of a "file" can be super-ceded.