If I understand this post correct they seem to like the idea of putting routes in the file system (Next uses magical file names as a way to generalize routes for those who haven’t used it). To me this makes absolutely no sense, a route doesn’t map to the file system in anything more than the most trivial index.html cases and you lose the ability to do things like “resource routes” to avoid mindless declaration of routes. On top of that, I would assume Next creates a route definition in memory anyways and doesn’t read from disk every request so it’s just pollution of the file system with the additional downside of making navigation unnecessarily hard.