...so you have to go get additional software in order to do that, instead of being able to use what comes with the OS? That's already going to turn off a bunch of users.
In those days, PC users were entering Asm code published in magazines into DEBUG (which came with MS-DOS), creating real application binaries.
Utter nonsense, as anyone who has ever used ResEdit can tell.
http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...
Also, extended file attributes are alive and well.