I don't see why people obsess about the MAXPATH as it's quite possible to get 32,768 characters, just use UNC paths with .NET which has been supported since I don't know when; you just need some DLL imports. https://ingehenriksen.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/how-to-work-w...
This does the DLL imports for you now and supports it across the board for everything that for everything that uses System.IO, which means once your app opts in you can use just about anything in the .NET ecosystem you want and trust it will work (say, a .NET 2 logging library that your company mandates). (It still needs UNC-like paths in some cases, but that's Windows back compat for you.)