[danpalmer]

You're right that it creates that, however it's the "better UX" of not having a filesystem that leads to the use of those features, which leads to users not practising the skills, which leads to that "illiteracy".

While I personally think a filesystem has great UX for my purposes, never accidentally losing a file is a much better UX for most people. As much as it causes friction to not have these basic computer skills now, I suspect it's less "illiteracy" and more _progress_. We don't criticise people for not knowing how to ride a horse today, because we have public transport and cars. We don't criticise computer users who can't use a 5.4" floppy drive because we have USB sticks and cloud storage.