> It’s just like the weirdos who try to get rid of the address bar on web browsers every few years, but the filesystem haters have been a lot more successful, a

> It’s just like the weirdos who try to get rid of the address bar on web browsers every few years, but the filesystem haters have been a lot more successful, and computers are more confusing as a result. They figure that the less users know about how their device/software works the more dependent they are on developers who can then act as gatekeepers of what the user can and can't do even when the system is capable of much more. They don't want users doing things differently, or disabling things, or seeing what's going on under the hood. Keeping users ignorant, controlled, and dependent gives them a very secure feeling.