Folders in media library, again

Hi,
I know that this topic was discussed lots of times, but those threads are mostly closed and basically the answer as I understand it is “it’s too complicated for users”.
Which seems confusing to say the least.
Being an artist, media management essentially is the core of content management for me and lack of hierarchy option is the only reason I cannot port my blog to WordPress, though I’d like to for a couple years already.

Why tags don’t work:
1. Hard to assign for homogenous content and even harder to remember after.
2. Need to use another search parameter anyway as general tags still return way too much content.

Why year/month doesn’t work:
1. Too broad. Even specific day is too broad as posts may be distributed unevenly, concentrating in single day.
2. Months are listed in single column, without hierarchy. Two years of content list is too long.

And most importantly:
Without folders it’s impossible to select, recategorize, delete or insert into post a whole folder. And it’s unpractical to do such things to 30 files manually on regular basis, especially considering one has to find them personally first if they’re not recent ones.

Which in turn renders beautiful and intuitive “media library” into theoretical possibility to change or find something if one really wants rather than a management tool.
I guess hence the name “media library” not “manager”. But it’s a strange lack of functionality still.

As for “folders are too complicated to use” argument – nobody pushes anyone to use folders if they don’t want to. Though I can’t see how a concept of folder might be complicating.

Hope nothing seems too harsh – wasn’t meant to. WordPress is a great CMS, it’s just that it would be nice to see more friendliness towards variability of use.

Thanks.