I detest the idea of a "non-idiot mode" or "expert mode". Software doesn't need to be complicated to be powerful.

#1 Google Docs has a fantastic organizational tool which is much better suited to the task than a traditional file system.

#2 Why are we messing with file names anyway? Flickr doesn't force me to think about this problem.

#3 Why can't I unlink a file instead of deleting it? Why should I have to kill a process?

#4 shrug Beautiful is welcome if you don't suck down my resources too badly.

#5 Again, normal users are forced to interact with file systems far too often.

#6 If you like Emacs so much, why don't you just use Emacs?

#7 PowerShell comes with Windows 7... or you can install Cygwin.

#8 shrug both technically already work nearly everywhere.

You are proposing "solutions" to common problems you have had. Your solutions have a remedy nature to them. You exhibit the traditional Microsoft band-aid mentality. Microsoft's culture is designed around managing complexity. We're damn good at coming up with complex solutions to complex problems. We are very weak at deriving simple solutions to complex problems. However, more importantly, we are very weak at identifying important problems to solve, and hence simplifying the needs for solutions. It seems to me like you would fit right in here. That is not necessarily a good thing.