Interesting play on the debate- but after the response to restic's original decision to upstream Object Store permissions and features... to the Object Store, along with my attempts to explain S3 to several otherwise reasonably technical people....

I think people are frequently trapped in some way of thinking (not sure exactly) that doesn't allow them to think of storage as anything other than Block based. They repeatedly try to reduce S3 to LBA's, or POSIX permissions (not even modern ACL type permissions), or some other comparison that falls apart quickly.

Best I've come up with is "an object is a burned CD-R." Even that falls apart though