[_jal]

For high-level languages you're writing user-facing apps in domains where your file handing needs are simple, I can see the appeal.

But of course you're ignoring the entire category of systems programming, cross platform apps that need something more than easy access to a file picker, integration code that frequently needs to deal with exactly the edge cases that these pretty abstractions ignore, etc. etc.

VB6 had its place. So does C.