On this reddit thread a bunch of people criticized / made fun of the fman file manager and how the author had spent over 3000 hours making it.
Some argued that making a general file manager application was “easy” and the author of fman had spent way too much time making such a simple app.
Yes, you’re wrong. Anyone who goes to make a tool as general and versatile as a file manager deserves huge respect.
Doing a UI prototype for two pane file list that lets you browse files is EASY. Making a file manager that actually helps you manage files is HARD.
Let’s see what needs to be considered when we try to COPY A FILE:
All this must work 100% of the time, on 100% systems, otherwise someone is going to lose their data.
I don’t even know if fman actually takes care of all that, but my point is that I can imagine one could easily spend a good portion of development making JUST THIS and I would consider it a great achievement if it actually worked.
See also: The Door Problem