Article illustrates numerous manner of ways of doing things incorrectly. The premise of the article is a bad precedent for stable environments: let's bend the

Article illustrates numerous manner of ways of doing things incorrectly. The premise of the article is a bad precedent for stable environments: let's bend the OS so that it plays nicely with what's clearly misuse and misunderstanding of filesystems. The only way eight million files should ever end up in a single directory level is by accident, and that's not the case in the scenario outlined here.