Every week, I encounter a user - just like I did in the 80's - who cannot explain the difference between a file and a folder.

"What do I use a folder for?", they ask, in the same breath that they request "some way to organize things logically".

The no-filesystem movement has worked hard to eradicate this scourge from user experiences, but I fear that this is the devils work. Computer users should know what a file is, and what its for - and they should know what a folder is for, and why they would want to create one to put their files into it ..

But yet: they don't.

It hasn't improved since the 80's. Taking away the users responsibility to understand these things, only makes computing worse. The fact that "special chars in paths" breaks things, also holds this factor into place, imho.