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ext4 is intended for a completely different use case, though? bcachefs is competing with btrfs and ZFS in big storage arrays spanning multiple drives, probably with SSD cache. ext4 is a nice filesystem for client devices, but doesn't support some things which are kinda fundamental at larger scales like data checksumming, snapshots, or transparent compression.
There's XFS for larger scale stuff.
Is XFS still maintained?
Yes.