> but every time there's huge blowback from users and developers because "they're trying to take our file explorers" or whatever. This is a justified blowback.

> but every time there's huge blowback from users and developers because "they're trying to take our file explorers" or whatever. This is a justified blowback. The file explorers and system utilities (apps users actually want to access the whole file system) should be given full rights. Access rights should be managed, not denied for all the apps altogether. I would introduce separate permissions for full file system (incl. OS and other apps files) access, access to user files space only, access to specific directories. PS: Can anybody recommend a really good file system explorer for Android? I would pay any reasonable single-time price but no ads and no subscriptions please.