The fact that some kind of tags or Key/Value storage as attributes on files, has been missing until 2025 (and still is) seems so bizarre to me. Our file systems have hardly changed since the 1960s. We get filename, timestamp, filesize, and that's about it. Pathetic.
Imagine the opportunities if a folder structure could represent a "document" where each file represents a paragraph, or image, chunk of that document. We would be able to do 'block-based editors' (like content management systems, or Jupyter Notebooks) without having to have some large XML file holding everything.
Even if we had simple "ordinal" (ordered position) for files that would open up endless opportunities for innovation in the 'block-editor' space, but sadly File Systems development has been frozen in place for decades.
Imagine the opportunities if a folder structure could represent a "document" where each file represents a paragraph, or image, chunk of that document. We would be able to do 'block-based editors' (like content management systems, or Jupyter Notebooks) without having to have some large XML file holding everything.
Even if we had simple "ordinal" (ordered position) for files that would open up endless opportunities for innovation in the 'block-editor' space, but sadly File Systems development has been frozen in place for decades.