Yea, it's hard to disagree! … and I don't think it's plausible to completely move away from folders (thinking about all those GitHub repos I've cloned or `git init`ed).

Otoh, there are some abstractions that I would favor or at least like to explore for some (categories of) tasks.

Think of Miro or Prezi, for example… they combine a zoomable UI, allowing you to navigate through your content that's meaningfully grouped. If I compare that to Google Drive, which is a combination of files and folders, plus files shared with me by numerous people who all have their own preferences for naming conventions, etc., it feels disorganized by default and requires the mundane work of organizing, which could be abstracted by novel technologies that "understand" the meaning of files.