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Yeah, I don't understand the fixation on BTRFS in the article. Nobody's going to have BTRFS problems unless they're doing advanced things that the documentation clearly says are experimental and unsupported. Nobody's going to accidentally set up a RAID5 array, or accidentally create a swap file on a non-swap-friendly volume. The average user won't see any difference between BTRFS and EXT4, except that BTRFS snapshots might save their butt in an emergency.
BTRFS is a perfectly reasonable choice as a default filesystem. Probably the best choice in general. Last year I thought bcachefs was the future, but now that's getting dropped from the Linux kernel so nope, guess I'll stick with BTRFS.