On this topic Newsletters Storage Solutions. Researchers say no, and I tend to agree. The shifting nature of computing makes this continuous change not only appropriate, but necessary. As new technologies and new operating systems become more popular, filesystems' basic requirements evolve. You can't expect something built a decade ago to serve the computers of today, just as you can't expect a truck built at the turn of the 20th century to still haul shipping containers cross-country.
Progress answers the demands it brings about.
The perceived benefits outweigh the issues and difficulties, and filesystems become faster, smarter, and better. Change happens It's 1980. Jump ahead to 1988. Unix systems are becoming more common on PC-based machines. FAT is slower and less efficient for these larger drives, and does not support the needs of the multiuser Unix environment.