This is not the sentence I have been commenting on. I have been commenting on your insistence that one should not use the File Manager to manage media files. This sounded rather silly to me, as there is no principal difference between media files and other files.

Apparently not. If you compare Maemo File Manager with any other popular file manager (starting with the Windows Explorer, for example), you will immediately see that:

1. Maemo File Manager does not make good use of screen estate by showing just a few files and obscuring long file name from the user.
2. Maemo File Manager cannot handle directories containing a lot of files (it becomes unusably slow on them, and eventually crashes, I think).

These two issues have to be fixed before you can say that Maemo File Manager is optimized for managing files. Same issues have to be fixed in the standard file selector.

Absolutely correct, although I would still expect to be able to "consume" a file by clicking on it in the file manager. But, as I described above, "consuming" files is not the problem. The problem is that the File Manager fails at managing files.