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And yet here we are 16 years later with btrfs only just in a position to be usable (perhaps. My experience is that I'll never use it again)
And EXT had been developed for 16 years at that point (and XFS for 15). They didn't mature overnight, either.
Hopefully bcachefs matures more quickly, because we need a mainline replacement for ZFS.