&gt;<i>Who cares if it&#x27;s a fine idea in theory, when in reality it&#x27;s completely unpractical. What you call &#x27;worse&#x27; is a model that works.</i><p>&quot;Completely unpractical&quot; is quite an exaggeration. OS X has used them for 15 years and things are working as they should for 99.9999 of the people in 99.9999 of the cases.<p>You&#x27;ll read more complaints&#x2F;confusion about way more standard POSIX&#x2F;UNIXY features that you&#x27;ll see about resource forks -- which are mostly hidden under the hood.<p>&gt;<i>If people actively start storing critical data in resource forks (as it was done in the case of the font), a lot of other things will break.</i><p>You mentioned &quot;reality&quot; but this is a hypothetical scenario.<p>People don&#x27;t &quot;start storing critical data in resource forks&quot;. Apple uses them for specific things it knowns how to handle and that they don&#x27;t need to be shared outside HFS boundaries.