Why would you assume no Apple Intelligence. A.I. has been enabled for any device with an M-series chip. It is already on the M1 MacBook Air and the M4 iPad Pro, so why not this M3 iPad Air?
A.I. is in its infancy now, but I expect significant improvements over the next year or two.
I don't use one for work but I use my iPad Pro with keyboard more than I use my personal laptop for personal use. Web browsing, social media, communications, viewing and editing photos, shopping, planning trips, taking notes, and watching videos.
Perhaps OP is referring to the idea that products are killed by apathy, not by hate. People who take the time to complain about something still want the thing, they just want it to be better. People who have stopped caring are lost.
Judging by this sub-thread, the process really is harder to explain that it appears on the surface. The basic idea is simple but the implementation requires deeper knowledge.
But why would you discuss the implementation to end-users who probably wouldn't even understand what "implementation" means? The discussions you see in the subthread is not a discussion that would appear on less-technical forums, and I wouldn't draw any broader conclusions based on HN conversations in general.
Because the implementation leaks to the user experience. The user at least needs to know whether after running the utility, the duplicate files will be gone, or whether changing one of the files will change the other.
Symbolic links, hard links, ref links are all part of the file system interface, not the implementation.
