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yes too much abstraction is bad

In the example at the end, people don’t necessarily need to know what files and folders are so its not bad that they dont know, it’s better for a new developer that they have a blank slate to learn about trees of storage paths, as the skeumorph is outdated. just like the save icon being a floppy disk was so outdated that instead of replacing it, people realized we dont actually need save icons anymore and everything should just always save



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