[avodonosov]

> And now open a contemporary smart phone interface, and show me, without any special tooling, the actual, "physical" file system.

Yes, I had phones in mind when writting the above :)

> And these things are probably the most successful consumer computing platforms ever.

Users don't have better choice in this market.

[IlliOnato]

Why do you think Apple and Google hide the file system in their mobile OSes? Just for fun?..

[avodonosov]

I could name several hypotheses, but I don't know exactly.

What I am certain of, is that it's very inconvenient to not have access to file systems.