Can you break down the analogy to a casual like myself? Genuinely want to be in on it as i enjoy driving and am always wanting to learn more linux to grasp a better understanding of OS’s

I'm sorry but you'll have to go into /etc/tangibles.conf and use_cases = "beyond_extension", and then run systemctl daemon-reload to get that behavior.

I mean sure. Obvs I don't speak for everyone that runs Linux. Knowing how Linux, works from Kernel to user space, from an LFS install, or simply being around it that much lends itself to being the kind of person who's able to setup, or gets paid to setup the kinds of tangible use cases others want. Like a webserver, back when it was hard. Like eg mounting files as a drive. It's just losetup then mount /dev/loop0 /mnt. That's a tangible use case where you can copy files off a dvd ISO. I'm sure you can find a program to do that on Windows, but it's basically a built in feature on Linux. Linux at the base level is workshop full of tools, it's up to you what you want to build.