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It's wasn't "NFS", it was always the users that made that mistake. NFS can be used in a proper and productive manner, but it requires adjustments.

Which all boil down to "replace NFS with something that has a better data model."

Any remote data system would have the same problems. Looping over a list and synchronously fetching files one by one is equally foolish for S3 too.

That is the point.