They were built to handle batch files stored in rigid hierarchies using big applications. In short, the digital revolution has outgrown its computer nursery. To understand the Amiga solution for tomorrow requires a paradigm shift, the acceptance of a certain set of core truths. Otherwise, people will just end up trying to smash traditional ideas against a new model to no avail. Firstly, there is no such thing as a file.
All elements are now just digital matter, a stream of zeros and ones.
Second, there are no applications. There are just activities that involve producers and consumers of that digital matter. Third, there is no such thing as an operating system. There is merely a set of services produced by service providers and consumed by service requestors. Fourth, these services, producers, consumers and digital matter exist independently of individual physical devices.