I think the concept of a folder structure is outdated, but not in the "you can just search for everything" kind of way, but in the "I need files to be present at multiple locations" kind of situation (aka file labels)
@nblr@ErikUden and they're an awkward solution to the problem, a symlink breaks when the original file is moved and you have to keep track of which is the original file, while hardlinks are evil semi-opaque filesystem magic and require extra PITA when dealing with things like rsync.