It amazes me the sheer number of developers whose hands I need to hold for even the most basic tasks that my elderly mother even knows how to do. I've worked in tech for about 15 years, and the terms "developer" and "tech nerd/enthusiast" used to be synonymous, but over the years, that's less and less true.

The tech nerds use to be the ones getting CS degrees. Now it seems like it's just another degree for indecisive majors and most of the kids I see starting out today aren't passionate about tech - it's just a degree/paycheck. It's just baffling to me lol. I work in support, and most folks on my end are big tech nerds still.

Well TBH I'm STILL waiting for a nice tag-based file system where I can just throw all my files in my bin and filter by tags, potentially more than one at a time.

Using a “laundry basket with a search robot” IS inherently a worse way to store data than a “file system with hierarchy”.

Nested folders are reliable and predictable.

Tagging is also a good option.

Relying on search that is likely to fail in predictable ways is an awful way to do anything serious. And therein lies the problem... These people have mostly never done serious work with a computer before, that other people rely on. As soon as someone else stands to lose money or fail a class because you can't find a file, the distinction will come into sharp focus.

The problem is the laundry basket is not one laundry basket, but a series of subtly different ones that are all poorly implemented leaky abstractions layered on top of files.