> Worth noting that the incoming younger generations can't and don't into file systems. [...] We are probably the last generation who can be ubiquitously assumed to have an understanding of files and folders/directories in a computer.

[the author here] The article is not about misunderstanding file-systems.

As I've commented earlier on a different thread, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32733825>, the problem is that when it comes to performance and jumping through the hoops the internet gatekeepers (i.e. the search engines) have set out, just dropping some files somewhere the web-server can pick up isn't enough; there are additional tasks that can't be easily performed with files-on-the-disk approach.