If the thing is smashed in or if you painted over it then it longer becomes a concern.

People typically don't make a fuss over what they are used to. The issue is that of civil liberties and the right to information. It may not be a big issue there, but for many of us we feel that every person has that right.

All I know is that FAT32 is incredibly simple for writing to. It just sequentially writes to memory in every free spot available, adding the address of the next cluster of the data to a table at the beginning of the partition. NTFS must just be much more complex in handling all the writing. When you add several extra operations every time you write to a 4KB or larger cluster, the delay would seem to build up rather quickly.

I'm surprised that there is no universal standard to concatenate the two files into a single file in FAT32.

Telsa had an issue with sending electricity long distances with DC, not with using it locally after converting it from AC.