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Dealing with files used to be something everyone interacting with computers had to do. It is something average people can do.

I think too much abstraction is a mistake and adds a lot of unneeded complexity.

People should learn something about technology they use. If you want to drive, you need understand how steering wheels work, if you want to drive a manual car (usual where I live and have lived) then you need to know how to work a gear stick and the effect of changing gear.



> used to be something everyone interacting with computers had to do

There were far fewer people 'interacting with computers' at that level years ago.


Everyone with an office job was still a lot of people though.


I'm not even sure 'everyone with an office job' had a computer. It certainly wasn't true 35 years ago. An office might have a computer or two, but not everyone had one, nor was everyone expected to use it.




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