Why are so many clown-ass morons so obsessed with not allowing a folder structure, and instead relying on tagging in software?

This completely falls apart after a few hundred files. Partially, that’s because tags are never complete or accurate. I mean, I’ve literally never seen it once where they are always correct. And it’s just a bad organization system from a design perspective.

The thing is, folders and tags aren’t even competitors. A folder is just a tag that enforces itself. Every file (unless you have a really terrible system, which I’ve also seen) lives in exactly one place, and that place is a claim about what the thing is. That’s not a limitation, actually. That’s the whole goddamn point.

And tags only work if someone applies them, completely, forever. Nobody does because it’s ungodly boring. So the system degrades silently. A directory structure fails in an obvious way, i.e., you see the wrong file in the wrong place. Tags fail by negligence and quietly. By the time you notice half your library is mistagged, it’s too late. The “flexibility” everyone worships is an illusion that leads to more entropy, not less. That’s very similar to the “convenience” everyone claims about smartphones even though doing anything on them is vastly slower, with surveillance baked in guaranteed, and is always a worse experience.

The propagandistic promotion of tagging shows that allowing the user to control what they want to is something doofy devs and dipshit designers will do anything to avoid.