Something not said, but China often lets others do the expensive R&D
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Also poor quality of what?
MPC-BE for video/audio
XnViewMP
Firefox for PDFs
MS office web (no need to install anything)
Windows 10+ includes clipboard history
PowerToys does have a file search, not sure how it compares to Everything
Additionally, apps can do whatever they want in custom partitions if they need better storage perf (databases for example do this). Getting lower level than that is probably doable, but you run the risk of becoming firmware that is tied to particular drive controller design
Remember that computer storage technology is over 70 years old, many many things have been tried/implemented in that time.
also, conductivity is determined by (at least) material, shape, and temperature