Aside:- Some torrent applications only move finished file(s) to the target directory. In the interim, while files are downloading, they remain in a subdirectory which is often hidden. This could also explain your experience, based solely on these quoted portions of your post. qBittorrent, for example, does this (manually configurable).
Interestingly, this ‘corporation that made working on file systems for almost 30 years its core business’ most likely grew from the initial efforts of one man working on a driver from scratch.
It’s also possible a driver might not have fundamentally changed in 30 years, and the focus remains on a yearly redesign of the GUI for marketing purposes.
:endofmusings
This might be of related interest:
Cheers.
Apologies, I didn’t initially notice this thread is getting a little long-in-the-tooth.