[Polylactic_acid]

>but I know it'll be able to read and edit text files.

Unless Apple and Microsoft decide that the ability to view and manage files directly is too confusing and dangerous for users and removes your ability to have portable raw text files.

And then all the HN users rejoice about how much simpler life has become when they let tech companies make choices for them and how files were never that good anyway.

[alpaca128]

Many people need to interact with files directly due to their job(whether it's development, system administration, video editing, ...), and neither MS nor Apple will ignore that market.

[JdeBP]

The irony here is you both talking about "Microsoft and Apple" as if the famous difference in their text file structures, newline conventions, was not there, and that we lived in an alternative reality where there were "portable raw text files" enabled by Microsoft and Apple.