I often see those "Plan 9 did everything right" posts and can't help but add "... because it hardly did anything at all" Current complexities stem from years a

I often see those "Plan 9 did everything right" posts and can't help but add "... because it hardly did anything at all" Current complexities stem from years and years of development and edge cases of new, previously not known use cases. Therefore Plan 9 filesystem abstractions are either really simple and often not comparable to Linux equivalents, or complicated but hiding internals behind the quasi-elegant interface. The latter being prone to fail on various edge cases. What strikes me as unnecessarily convoluted is "mounting remote server /net directory to create proxy". Imagine what obscene things must be going behind the scenes.