Readig the spec (and I've read it a few months before reading this article), I think that based on the specification alone it's actually a good-enough FS (it's

Readig the spec (and I've read it a few months before reading this article), I think that based on the specification alone it's actually a good-enough FS (it's not great, but it's good enough). But in practice, it's actually hard to write a reliable driver, especially if you haven't have any experience in the FAT family. It also has a problem in code maturity, especially that FAT32 code (and even NTFS code!) in differrent systems are battle-tested and not just spec-compatible but also bug-compatible, unlike exFAT which is only realistically been released only in 2019. P.S.: it still has that Y2100 hard limit in dates, I can't believe that MSFT haven't solved that one especially that it was created in 2001.