Most technology is able to do useful things by building layers of simpler things. Files are not sequences of bytes in day to day computing. They are videos, or

Most technology is able to do useful things by building layers of simpler things. Files are not sequences of bytes in day to day computing. They are videos, or databases, or applications. Actually a lot of the time you'll be doing your day to day computing, thousands of files are being accessed and you wouldn't even know it.