I agree that where are now is bad, but I also think files could be an answer too. What we saw in 9p was a file orientation as well, but files were much smaller

I agree that where are now is bad, but I also think files could be an answer too. What we saw in 9p was a file orientation as well, but files were much smaller grained structures. We can see various kernel interfaces like /proc and /sys where we have file structures representing bigger objects too. Rather than use the file system structure, apps have been creating their own structures within files. This obstructs homogenous user access to the data! If we could start to access finer grained data, start to have objects as file-system-trees, I think a lot of progress could be made in computing, especially vis-a-vie the rifts of human-computer-interaction. It would give us leverage to see & work the data, broadly. Rather than facing endless different opaque streams of bytes.