I agree that the base functionality of just sorting character by character can be occasionally useful. However I would really be interested in seeing why you believe this to be the correct choice for user-facing graphical file managers, as its evident problems with typical usage seem more salient compared to the edge cases as illustrated in the article.

Because I value predictability more than convenience, I'm too stupid to figure out the set of rules deemed "the right way of sorting", I can't even.. the possible ways it can be implemented is nearly infinite, it makes me anxious just to think about it. Sorting by numerical value is simple, I can understand that, I know the ascii table, I can predict what happens, I know where to look for stuff, meaning I can quickly find out where stuff is, because I don't have to look a bit here, then there, and then think "oh, maybe if it starts with a letter, then has a space and then a number they will order them by word - number" but if they start with a word but has no number they won't be sorted along with those, but if they st... nope.