[_aavaa_]

“Folder navigation is the main way that personal computer users retrieve their own files.”

Maybe in 2010, but is that true now? Is that true of younger users? I personally use find all my files through search (Alfred on macOS). And I know many others who do too.

“Folder structures were found to be shallow (files were retrieved from mean depth of 2.86 folders)”

Again I don’t know if this is still true. When you have to manually click through each folder, then shallow structures make sense. But when you can search into all directories at once, then this starts becoming less of a constraint. And instead you gain the benefits of deep structures without the negatives (I.e. cd’ing through 10 folders).