I believe the "New" menu of the file manager is mostly used by newbies and that's great it is there for them. For more experienced people the usefulness of an o

I believe the "New" menu of the file manager is mostly used by newbies and that's great it is there for them. For more experienced people the usefulness of an option in this menu probably varies from type to type. Being able to create a plain text file at any given place makes a lot of sense even for advanced users (especially if displaying file name extensions is enabled, I actually believe making hiding them even an option, let alone the default is the worst decision of whole Windows UX design). Word/Excel documents also make sense. BMPs make notably less (today). Some types make zero sense to be there yet get there occasionally.