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It's been there for years and years.

Although one of the things about Mac is that you don't tend to spend a whole lot of time on manual file management. They tend to have powerful enough search engines that you can find everything you need in a split second and let the computer handle the filing, so it's not like "C Drive" "D drive".

Was one of the biggest things to get used to for me as I was compulsively organising folders and deep diving into settings on windows before I moved across.

I have music and TV shows which I let it file for me, but it renames everything pretty logically, it's not a string of gibberish if it ever was. Usually a folder for the show name, within that a folder for each season, and then each episode is named with the episode number and title.

The confusing part though is if you don't buy things in albums.  It stores music by the artist and then the sub-folders are by album, but if you are someone who collects music one song at a time and only the ones you like, then you end up with like a track from the greatest hits album and another off the original album etc, at which point it becomes a bit messy.

Although these days I don't really collect downloaded music anymore, there's so many streaming services to choose from that are cheaper and easier to manage.