More complexity creep in Phobos

[Meta]

On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 07:32:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/28/19 1:36 AM, Meta wrote:
>> DirEntry states that it is a subtype of `string`
>
> No, please refer to the "Generality creep" thread.

Last time I checked, curt dismissal is not an argument. I 
maintain that this is not "generality creep", but working around 
a broken language feature.