Why are we so obsessed with using file systems anyway

I don't exclude myself, I find the young not knowing what a file or folder is terrifying

... but why

filesystems are fake anyway, you have no idea how the bytes are placed on the drive, you just draw your own tree on top of it

what makes that better than say a centralized search? a system of filterable tags?

Like

why are we like this

Do we have a legimitate claim to objective superiority?

I feel like a teacher standing in front of the class saying

"Gen alpha not having learned navigating a file system is a detriment to technologicial Literacy

Discuss"

And then just standing in the corner and watching

Doggie BSc :neofox_snug: :therian:

@MiaWinter it's mainly that tree filesystems are already in use by most technology so to understand that technology you need to understand them

Luniniya :therian:

@MiaWinter I'm in no way an expert but, I feel like using a file system, as in like a tree data structure, allows us to narrow down searches very easily, I'd assume that tags wouldn't allow for the same "locality" as a tree does since the only way to encapsulate data would be to make a new unique tag for every group you'd want which a tree structure already offers, further more querying and writing programs that search through all files sounds like a noticeably easier process then say searching all files from all tags. I think the use of filesystems as a tree are used due to them offering an inherent boost in speed due to locality of behaviour and ofcourse the fact that we've always been using this, so there is no reason for people wanting change

(ps sorry if I misinterpreted your post or if I asid anything incorrect)