@neko @pomstan >safety, security, control etc
these are post-hoc rationalizations for the current system, not an examination of the benefits of it. I think the reason why things are the way they are come down to psychology more than anything else.

Seems a lot of people who use linux get a feeling of "control" from having to do overly complex tasks like these. I think they see it like a puzzle game, a dopamine hit whenever things line up, that an automounting system would rob them of.

I'm not saying the task is extremely difficult, I'm just saying it's a waste of time and effort that could be spent elsewhere. Also that it's symptomatic of an epidemic of cruft that techy people have trained themselves over the years to not even notice.

There's a lot about sticking to a baseline standard I like. I'd even say in a lot of ways its essential to do so-- for example, I'm against adding extraneous shit to streams or signals, I'm against changing the way time-worn commands function because that old predictability is a GOOD thing.

I don't think we should be changing things just to change them. I think we should instead add abstractions where they will make things easier without hiding too much of the process.