[quesera]

Doesn't seem crazy to me at all. It works well for that use case, but it doesn't scale well to hundreds of entries.

Once you get into groupings you're creating the same problems that people have with filesystems (implicit or explicit organization challenges, loss of discoverability, etc).

Search (or something like what we call "search" today) might be the best step forward from here, but you can layer that on top of any other (or no specified) KV metaphor you like.