The key in Gruber’s argument is this:
And those of you who object to these generalizations — those of you shaking your heads and saying to yourselves, No, I very much do want to specify by hand the file name and location in the hierarchical directory structure for every bit of data on my system — are almost certainly, I would wager, computer programmers. To argue that users should embrace manual file system management for every bit of data they wish to store is to argue against human nature.
My parents, in fact almost every non-programmer I’ve met doesn’t get documents. Often they don’t get folders either.
Worth remembering when writing your next indie Mac hit…
